Starr, Victor P.
Victor Starr papers, 1948-1975.
Victor Starr's professional activities are documented in correspondence with colleagues and organizations including the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the United States Weather Bureau, and information about administrative and meteorological research activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including the MIT Planetary Circulations Project. There are extensive data recorded during an atmospheric (wind) circulation study conducted between 1949 and 1951. Copies of Starr's writings are also included, as well as some biographical material.
Ph.D. (1946, University of Chicago). Professional meteorologist, United States Weather Bureau; assistant professor, meteorology, University of Chicago (1941-1947); professor of meteorology (and emeritus until his death) MIT (1947-1975). Starr was the director of the MIT Planetary Circulation Project, developed the theory of negative viscosity, and published many articles on the circulation of planetary atmosphere, water wave studies, and solar and planetary astronomy.
Starr, Victor P.
American Astronomical Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Deptartment of Meteorology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Planetary Circulations Project
United States. Weather Bureau
Atmospheric circulation.
Meteorology
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA