Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1902-1980.
Henrietta Hill Swope papers, 1917-1982.
This collection consists of her correspondence with friends, family, and colleagues in astronomy; travel diaries and information; engagement calendars; some astronomical material; and clippings and photographs of Swope and her colleagues. Included are some papers of her father, Gerard Swope. Topics covered: photometry and variable stars. Individuals represented include: Walter Baade, David Ben-Gurion, Bart Jan Bock, Constance Boyd, Eleanor Margaret Burbridge, Annie Jump Cannon, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Alice Hamilton, Edith Hamilton, Margaret Hamilton, Margaret Harwood, Dorothy McGuire, Lucas Plaut, Harlow Shapley, David Swope, John Swope, Gerard Swope, Gerard Swope (1872-), Gerard Swope (1905-), Henrietta Hill Swope, Mary Hill Swope. Institutions represented include: Barnard College, Harvard College Observatory, Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Astronomer (Barnard College, A.B., 1926; Radcliffe, A.M., 1928), Swope worked at the Harvard Observatory, 1928-1942, was a member of the 1936 expedition to study the solar eclipse in Soviet Central Asia, a staff member of the MIT Radiation Laboratory, a mathematician in the Hydrographic Office of the U.S. Navy during World War II, a teacher of astronomy at Barnard, 1947-1952, and an assistant, then research fellow, at the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories in California, 1952-1968. Swope did research on photometry and variable stars, and developed a new yardstick for measuring the universe, using the brightness of stars to measure distance.
Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973.
Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979-
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970.
Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963.
McGuire, Dorothy, 1919-
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Swope, Gerard, 1872-1957.
Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1902-1980.
Swope, Mary Hill.
Boyd, Constance.
Burbidge, E. Margaret.
Cannon, Annie Jump, 1863-1941
Hamilton, Margaret, 1871-1969.
Harwood, Margaret, 1885-1979.
Plaut, Lucas.
Swope, David.
Swope, John.
Swope, Gerald, 1905-
Barnard College.
Harvard College Observatory
Palomar Observatory.
Astronomy.
Eclipses, Solar -- 1936.
Family records.
Stars.
Photometry.
Variable stars.
Voyages and travels.
Women astronomers.
Women in science
Diaries lcgft
Astronomers. lcsh
AIP-ICOS
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Schlesinger Library. Cambridge MA 02138, USA