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Thomas, Helen Meriwether Lewis.
Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas papers, 1890-1997.
Articles by and about Helen Thomas and her work on the history of variable star observation. Also interview transcript describing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, information about the Trans World Airlines "Cosmic Contest," photographs of radar on United States Navy warships, 1941-1945, and family photographs, 1890-1922.
Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas (1905-1997) received her A.B (1928) in astronomy and Ph.D (1948) from Radcliffe College. She was the first woman and second American to earn a Ph.D in History of Science. Employed first at the Harvard College Observatory, she worked during World War II at the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard and then at the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was senior engineer at Raytheon (1947-1954), and editor, later head of publications, at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. In 1956, she entered the Trans World Airlines "Cosmic Contest" and 30 years later won a $50,000 prize for correctly predicting the future nature of air travel.
Hoffleit, Dorrit,
Sarton, George, 1884-1956.
Shaplow, Harley, 1885-1972.
Thomas, Helen Meriwether Lewis.
Thomas, Helen Meriwether Lewis.
Harvard College Observatory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics.
Radcliffe College. Class of 1928.
Raytheon Manufacturing Company.
Trans World Airlines.
United States. Radio Research Laboratory, Harvard University.
Rationing -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Radar.
Women astronomers.
Women scientists.
Women in science
Interviews. aat
Photographs. aat
Transcripts. aat
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Schlesinger Library. Cambridge MA 02138, USA
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