Day, Arthur L. (Arthur Louis), 1869-1960
Arthur Louis Day papers, 1888-1898, 1902-1918.
This collection contains the personal papers of physicist Arthur Louis Day, who served as first director of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The papers primarily document Days personal activities including correspondence with his family while he was a student and then a physics instructor at Yale University and a staff member of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Charlottenburg, Germany. The papers also document some of Days professional activities including his work with the optical glass company Bausch & Lomb and with the United States Geological Survey.
American geophysicist. Ph.D., Yale University (1894). Physics instructor, Yale University (1894-1897), science staff, Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (1897-1901), physical geologist, U.S. geological survey (1901-1907), director of Geophysical lab, Carnegie Institute of Washington (1907-1936). Day also served as vice president of the National Academy of Sciences (19331941) and president (1938) of the Geological Society of America, which created the Arthur L. Day Medal in his honor in 1948.
Day, Arthur L. (Arthur Louis), 1869-1960
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Geophysical Laboratory
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Germany)
Yale University
Correspondence.
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Geophysical Laboratory. Library and Archives. 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA