McVittie, George C. (George Cunliffe)
Selected papers [microform], 1926-1975.
Correspondence, travel reports, and addresses. Primarily correspondence centering upon McVittie's work from the 1940s through the 1960s. The travel reports and addresses are from international meetings of the International Astronomical Union and other astronomical societies and symposia on relativity, cosmology, and other topics. Correspondents include Hermann Bondi, Hans Buchdahl, Charles G. Darwin, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Walter Fricke, George Gamow, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Allan Sandage, Harlow Shapley, Fred L. Whipple, and Edmund T. Whittaker.
Astronomer (cosmology, gravitational collapse, quasars), educator, and applied mathematician. On the mathematics faculty at University of London, Kings College, 1936-1948; and Queen Mary College, 1948-1952; and head, department of astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1952.
Bondi, Hermann.
Buchdahl, H. A. (Hans Adolph), 1919- .
Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944
Fricke, W. (Walter), 1915-
Gamow, George, 1904-1968
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979
Sandage, Allan.
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
Whittaker, E. T. (Edmund Taylor), 1873-1956.
International Astronomical Union
Astronomy -- Societies, etc.
Astrophysics
Cosmology
Relativity (Physics)
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AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA