Johnson, Hugh M.
Hugh M. Johnson papers, 1946-1999
The collection is centered on Johnson's time at Lockheed Space & Missile Company (1963-1986), but there is also material pertaining to his work before and after this period. The bulk of the research is on x-ray astronomy, but there is also material on Johnson's other research interests (x-ray astronomy, nebulae, galaxies, galactic structure, and interstellar matter). The collection is comprised mainly of correspondence, with lesser amounts of notes, newspaper clippings, and notebooks. The correspondence is both personal and professional. The correspondents include: Helmet A. Abt, Lawrence H. Aller, Frank M. Bateson, Bart J. Bok, Riccardo Giacconi, David S. Heeschen, George Herbig, William Hiltner, W.E. Howard III, Helen Hogg, Willem Luyten, N.U. Mayall, Donald Osterbrock, Stuart Pottasch, Arcadio Poveda, Frederick D. Seward, Lindsey Smith, Theodore Snow, Bruce Stephenson, Polydore Swings, Yervant Terzian, and Gart Westerhout. Some correspondence related to specific research subjects, observatories, meetings and programs is accompanied by research notes and photographs. The collection also contains notebooks from courses at the University of Chicago (taught by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Gerard Peter Kuiper, and Bengt Stromgren), the 1964 Hamburg IAU meeting, Yerkes Observatory Colloquia, and an NSF conference for teachers of astronomy at Berkeley in 1954.
Hugh Johnson was born on March 4, 1923 in Des Moines, Iowa. He earned his AB in 1948 and his SB in 1949 from the University of Chicago. In 1953 he received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Chicago. Johnson worked as an Assistant Astronomer at Yerkes Observatory at the University of Chicago from 1950 to 1953. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa from 1954 to 1959. He was an Associate Professor and Associate Astronomer at the University of Arizona from 1960 to 1962. Johnson was an Associate Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory during 1962 and 1963. From 1963 to 1986, Johnson was a Staff Scientist at Lockheed Space & Missile Company. Johnson was also a Research Associate at Yerkes Observatory from 1953 to 1960, a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in 1958 and 1959, and a lecturer at Stanford University in 1971 through 1975 and 1980 through 1982. Johnson was a member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union.
Abt, Helmut A.
Aller, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Hugh), 1913-2003
Bateson, Frank M.
Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995-
Giacconi, Riccardo.
Hiltner, William Albert, 1914-1991.
Hogg, Helen (Battles) Sawyer, 1905-1993.
Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973
Luyten, Willem Jacob, 1899-1994
Mayall, N. U. (Nicholas Ulrich), 1906-1993-
Osterbrock, Donald E.
Strm̲gren, Bengt, 1908-1987
Swings, P. (Polydore), 1906-1983-
Terzian, Yervant, 1939-
American Astronomical Society.
International Astronomical Union.
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company.
Astronomers -- Correspondence.
Astronomy.
Galaxies.
Interstellar matter.
Nebulae.
X-ray astronomy.
Notebooks. aat
Heeschen, David S.
Herbig, G. H. (George H.)
Howard, W.E. III.
Pottasch, Stuart.
Poveda, Arcadio.
Seward, Frederick D.
Smith, Lindsey.
Snow, Theodore.
Stephenson, Bruce.
Westerhout, Gart, 1927-2012
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA