Mansfield, Robert H. (Robert Hubbard),
Robert Hubbard Mansfield papers, 1932-1988 (bulk 1932-1935).
The collection contains the personal papers of Robert Hubbard Mansfield, detailing an 18-month excursion for the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) at the Carnegie Institution of Washington to gather magnetic secular variation data from nearly 50 stations between Cape Town, South Africa, along the eastern coast of Africa to Suez, Egypt.
Born 1909 in Evanston, Illinois. Performed studies of magnetic secular variation data for the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1932 to 1935. These studies were conducted in Africa and at Huancayo Magnetic Observatory in Peru.
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Geomagnetism.
Geophysical observatories.
Geophysics.
Scientific expeditions -- Africa.
Correspondence. aat ftamc aat
Financial records. aat
Maps. aat
Photographs. aat
Souvenirs (Keepsakes). aat
Geophysicists. lcsh
AIP-ICOS
Carnegie Institution of Washington. 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Library and Archives.