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Babcock, Harold D. (Harold Delos), 1882-1968.
Subjects
Anti-submarine warfare -- Research.
Astronomical photography.
Astronomy.
Diffraction gratings.
Eclipses, Solar.
Electricity.
Naval research.
Photography.
Solar magnetic field.
Mount Wilson Observatory.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
United States. Navy
Babcock, Harold D. (Harold Delos), 1882-1968.
Babcock, Harold Delos, 1882-1968 -- Childhood and youth.
Autobiographies.
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Notes for an intelle...
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for an
intellectual
autobiography
,
1962
.
by
Babcock, Harold D. (Harold Delos), 1882-1968.
Call Number:
MB18
Description:
38 pp.
Owning Repository:
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Country of Repository:
USA
Scope of Material:
The
autobiography
covers Babcock's ancestry; childhood; interests in electricity and photography; work at college job at the National Bureau of Standards; appointment to physics staff of Mount Wilson Observatory, description of colleagues and work there; detailed discussion of work on diffraction gratings, solar and spectral photography, solar magnetism, solar eclipses, and defense work for the Navy (including anti-submarine warfare) in 1918-1919 and 1942-1945.
Notes:
Forms part of the Manuscript Biography Collection of the American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library.
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Table of contents and index available.
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AIP-ICOS
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Autobiographies.
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International Catalog of Sources
Manuscript Biographies-NBL
MB18
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