Babcock, Horace W.
Horace Welcome Babcock papers, 1948-1978.
The papers in this collection are, for the most part, those of Babcock when he was director of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories from 1964 to 1978, and do not include his personal and scientific papers. As director, he led the Observatories through many important changes including the establishment of the observatories in Chile.
Horace Welcome Babcock, a distinguished solar and stellar astronomer, the fourth director of Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. He received a BS in physics in 1934 from the California Institute of Technology, and a PhD in 1938 from University of California at Berkeley.
Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories -- Administration.
Astronomical observatories -- California.
Astronomical observatories -- Chile.
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