Slipher, Earl C.
E. C. Slipher papers, 1885-1969.
The papers contain observational notes, drawings, photographs, newspaper clippings, published and unpublished papers and correspondence. Much of the material consists of observational notes about the planets and photographs and drawings of Mars. There is also a significant amount of material related to Slipher's non-research interests, such as political, governmental and educational concerns. Correspondents include Percival Lowell, Gerard Kuiper and Carl Sagan.
M.A., Indiana University, with studies completed at Lowell Observatory (1908). Plantary astronomer and acting director, Lowell Observatory; Mars observation expeditions to Lamont-Hussey Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa (1939, 1954, 1956).
Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973
Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916.
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996
Slipher, Earl C.
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