Crawford, R. T. (Russell Tracy), 1876-
Russell Tracy Crawford papers, 1897-1960.
This collection contains the papers of Russell Tracy Crawford, an astronomer and professor at the University of California for several decades in the 20th century. Materials include personal and professional correspondence, research notes and charts related to his extensive work on comet orbits, travel diaries and photographs, and published writings. Also included are some collected clippings pertaining to Crawford's early academic career at the University of California, and biographical information written after his death in 1958.
(1876-1958) Astronomer; PhD in astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (1897); fellowship at Lick Observatory under R. H. Tucker; during World War I worked as head of the Balloon School of Air Service Military Aeronautics; full Professor of Astronomy in 1919 and Chair of department in 1936, University of California, Berkeley.
Crawford, R. T. (Russell Tracy), 1876-
Lick Observatory
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Astronomy
Comets
Comets -- Orbits.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Santa Cruz. Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory. University Library, Rm. 359, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA