Atkinson, Robert d'Escourt, 1898-1982
Selected correspondence [microform], 1927-1955.
Consists of correspondence (1931-1955) with the astronomer Henry Norris Russell and several earlier letters exchanged with Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. The Russell correspondence includes much personal material relating to Atkinson's career decisions and Russell's personal life; astronomical topics such as spectroscopy, spectroscopic parallaxes, and the origin of the solar system; and other topics such as referee problems of the Astrophysical Journal, feelings about World War II, de-gaussing research during the war, politics after the war, ballistics research, and conditions at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The correspondence with Eddington includes discussion of clocks in general relativity, the energy of the sun and stars, and quantum mechanics.
Astronomer (fundamental astronomy, celestial mechanics, relativity). On the physics faculty at Rutgers University, 1929-1937; on the staff of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1937-1964; and on the astronomy faculty at University of Indiana, Bloomington from 1964.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
Royal Greenwich Observatory.
The Astrophysical journal.
Astronomical observatories.
Astronomy.
Astrophysics
Ballistics -- Research.
Degaussing -- Research.
Quantum theory.
Relativity (Physics)
Solar system -- Origin.
Spectrum analysis.
World politics -- 1945-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Astronomers. lcsh
Spectrum analysis.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA