Frost, Edwin Brant, 1866-1935.
Edwin Brant Frost papers, 1886-1924.
The majority of this collection consists of the professional correspondence of Edwin B. Frost from 1889-1924 and is organized chronologically. Boxes 2-4 contain correspondence regarding the American efforts to provide aid to Russian astronomers and observatories in the early 1920s, which Frost played a central role in organizing.
Astronomer. Dartmouth College, A. B. 1886; A. M. 1889; D. Sc. 1911; D. Sc. (hon.) Cambridge University, 1912; studies physics and astonomy, Princeton, Strassburg (Germany), Astrophysical Observatory, Potsdam, Germany. Taught physics and astronomy at Dartmouth, 1887-1898; professor of astrophysics, University of Chicago, 1898- (and director of observatory, 1892); director of Yerkes Observatory, 1905-1932, emeritis.
Frost, Edwin Brant, 1866-1935.
Yerkes Observatory -- Officials and employees.
Astronomers. lcsh
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