Van de Kamp, Peter, 1901-1995
Dedication of McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, Texas [motion picture] / taken by Peter Van de Kamp.
Van de Camp's film of the celebration (including a Texas barbecue) commemorating the dedication of McDonald Observatory in 1939. Among the attendees were: Walter Baade, Bart Jan Bok, Edwin F. Carpenter, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Heber Doust Curtis, Christian Thomas Elvey, Edwin Powell Hubble, Gerald Peter Kuiper, C.A. Robert Lundin, Robert Raynolds McMath, Edward Arthur Milne, Jason John Nassau, Jan Hendrik Oort, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, John Stanley Plaskett, Frank E. Ross, Henry Norris Russell, Jan Schilt, Carl K. Seyfert, Harlow Shapley, Frederick Slocum, Otto Struve, Robert Julius Trumpler, and William Hammond Wright. The film also includes scenes of the town of Fort Davis, Texas.
Astronomer; professor at Swarthmore College for 35 years. Magill Professor of Astronomy and director of the Sproul Observatory in the Netherlands (after retiring from Swarthmore). Died 1995.
Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995-
Hubble, Edwin, 1889-1953.
Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973
Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.
Oort, Jan Hendrik.
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979-
Ross, Frank E. (Frank Elmore), 1874-1960.
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
Trumpler, Robert J. (Robert Julius), 1886-1956.
Wright, William Hammond, 1871-1959.
McDonald Observatory.
Motion pictures (visual work) ftaat
Astronomers. lcsh
Carpenter, Edwin F.
Curtis, Heber Doust
Elvey, Christian Thomas.
Lundin, C. A. Robert.
McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962
Nassau, Jason John, 1893-1965
Plaskett, John Stanley, 1865-1941.
Schilt, Jan.
Slocum, Frederick.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA