Jeffers, Hamilton, 1893-1976.
Hamilton Jeffers papers, 1895-1975.
This collection documents the work of Hamilton Moore Jeffers, an astronomer who spent much of his career at the Lick Observatory. Materials include his professional and personal correspondence, some research notes, personal and family photographs, class notes from his student work at the University of California at Berkeley, and reports and correspondence from his time as an operations analyst in the Air Force during World War II.
Astronomer; earned PhD in astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (1921); institutional affiliations include State University of Iowa and Lick Observatory. Known for work in positional astronomy and for his use of the meridian circle. He was mainly interested in observations of minor planets, comets, and double stars.
Jeffers, Hamilton, 1893-1976.
Lick Observatory
United States. Air Force
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Astronomy
Astronomy
Comets
Double stars.
World War, 1939-1945
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Santa Cruz. Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory. University Library, Rm. 359, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA