Douglas, A. Vibert (Allie Vibert), 1894-1988
Alice Douglas addition to papers, 1915-1988.
Correspondence, subject files, and travel diaries. The correspondence was conducted over the years between Douglas, her family, and numerous colleagues, and covers the period from her arrival at Queen's University at Kingston as Dean of Women in 1939, until just prior to her death. The travel diaries, kept in meticulous detail by Douglas, chronicle her travels over the years, often undertaken in the course of her work with the International Federation of University Women and the International Astronomical Union. The subject files are of a personal, rather than professional, nature.
Douglas received her B.A. and M.Sc from McGill in 1920 and 1921. An interval as statistician at the British War Office during World War I earned her the M.B.E. Her studies at Cambridge under Sir Arthur Eddington (whose biographer she became) began Douglas's interest in astronomy. In 1925 she received her Ph.D. in astronomy where her research field was the spectropic study of the very hot A and B stars. 1925-1939, Douglas taught at McGill then moved to Queen's Unviersity where she served as Dean of women, 1939-1959, and Professor of Astronomy from 1946. She retired in 1964 and died in 1988.
International Astronomical Union
Queen's University. Dean of Women.
Photographs. aat
Travelogs. aat
Diaries lcgft
Astronomers lcsh
International Federation of University Women.
AIP-ICOS
Queen's University. Archives. Kathleen Ryan Hall, Kingston, Ontario, Canada