Chapman, Sydney, 1888-1970
Sydney Chapman festschrift material [microform], 1968.
Letters, essays, and clippings. The material consist of testimonial letters (ca. 1967-1968) from friends on their recollections as colleagues of Chapman. Also included are essays written for the text by fellow scientists, covering Chapman's scientific accomplishments and clippings documenting Chapman's professional career. Chapman himself wrote short autobiographical essays which were added to the text. The correspondence is of Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Chapman's associate at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, soliciting contributions for the book. Correspondents include W.N. Abbot, Giorgio Abetti, Edward V. Ashburn, D.R. Bates, William Lawrence Bragg, Stephen Brush, Johannes M. Burgers, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, C.A. Coulson, Thomas G. Cowling, M. Cutolo, J.C. Gupta, J.W. Linnett, George Paget Thomson, and George E. Uhlenbeck.
Physicist (geophysics, physics of the upper atmosphere). On the mathematics and natural philosophy faculty at the University of Manchester, 1919-1924; and Imperial College, London, 1924-1926; on the natural philosophy faculty at Oxford University, 1946-1953; and member of research staff, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colorado, from 1955.
Abetti, Giorgio, 1882-1982.
Akasofu, Syun-Ichi.
Ashburn, Edward V.
Bates, David R. (David Robert), 1916-1994
Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942
Brush, Stephen G.
Burgers, J. M. (Johannes Martinus), 1895-
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Cowling, T. G. (Thomas George)
Thomson, G. P. (George Paget), 1892-1975
Kinetic theory of gases.
Geophysics
Ionosphere
Stratosphere.
Festschriften. aat
Physicists. lcsh
Abbot, W. N.
Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974.
Cutolo, M.
Gupta, J. C.
Linnett, J. W.
Uhlenbeck, George Eugn̈e, 1900-1988
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA