Royal Greenwich Observatory
Alexander Boksenberg Papers.
Includes: A. Files of loose papers, taped and boxed as they accrue. B. Documentation of important events and topics, such as: installation of the refurbished Isaac Newton Telescope (2.5 metre) at the Observatorio de los Muchachos site on the Canary Island of La Palma. completion of the William Herschel Telescope (4.2 metre); completion of the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (1.0 metre); inauguration of the Observarorio de los Muchachos; move of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from Herstmonceux to Cambridge, 1988-1990; the Science and Engineering Research Council policy of reducing the amount of astrophysical research undertaken at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and increasing its support for academic astronomers and astrophysicists through the provsion of telescopes and their instrumentation. C. Corrrespondents.
Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1981-[ongoing]. Boksenberg (1936- ) was educated at the Stationers' Company's School and at University College, London, where he graduated B.Sc. in 1957 and Ph. D. in 1960, Boksenberg was a Science Research Council Research Student at University College, London from 1960-1965. He was appoinated Lecturer in Physics there in 1965 and Reader in Physics in 1975. Boksenberg was head of the Optical and Ultraviolet Astronomy Research Group from 1969-1981, a Science Research Council Senior Fellow from 1976-1981 and from 1976 to 1981 was Professor of Physics at University College. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978. In 1981, Boksenberg was appointed to succeed F. G. Smith as Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, becoming a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomoy at University College, London and in the Astronomy Centre of the University of Sussex in the same year.
Boksenberg, Alec -- Records and correspondence.
Instituto de Astrofs̕ica de Canarias. Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos.
Science and Engineering Research Council (Great Britain)
Astronomical instruments -- Costs.
Astronomical observatories -- Cost of operation.
Astronomical observatories -- Great Britain
Astronomy -- Research -- Great Britain.
Astrophysics -- Research -- Great Britain.
Telescopes (Astronomy) -- Design and construction.
Isaac Newton Telescope -- Remodeling.
Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope.
William Herschel Telescope.
AIP-ICOS
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