Harvard College Observatory. Office of the Director
Harvard College Observatory Office of the Director subject files, 1960-1978.
Collection includes correpsondence, memos, meeting agendas, minutes, and other records relating to Solar Probe Mission, recruitment, Ballon Project, National Science Foundation grant, Harvard College Observatory Council, Southern Hemisphere Telescope, Fort Davis, and other projects, committees, etc. Materials relate especially to directorships of Alexander Dalgarno, Acting Director, 1971-1972, and George Field, 1972-1982.
The Astronomical Observatory was established in 1839, and is now known as the Harvard College Observatory. The Massachusetts stations are in Cambridge and the George R. Agassiz Station (Oak Ridge) in Harvard, Mass. The Boyden Station of the Observatory was originally located in Arequipa, Peru until 1927 when it was transferred near Bloemfontien in the Orange Free State, South Africa. This station closed about 1966.
Dalgarno, A.
Field, George B., 1929-
Harvard College Observatory.
Harvard College Observatory. Office of the Director
Harvard Radio Astronomy Station (Fort Davis, Texas)
Astronomical instruments.
Astronomical observatories.
AIP-ICOS
Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.