William W. Coblentz papers
by William W. Coblentz
Correspondence, journal, writings, notebooks, biographical material, financial records, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Coblentz's career as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards. Coblentz kept the journal during a solar eclipse expedition to Sumatra, Indonesia, and his return through Europe in 1926. Writings include annotated copies of Coblentz's Man's Place in a Superphysical World (1954) and From the Life of a Researcher (1951). Subjects include infrared spectroscopy, the application of radiometry to astronomical problems, stellar and planetary radiation, and psychic phenomena. Correspondents include Cleveland Abbe, C. G. Abbot, George Ellery Hale, Dayton Clarence Miller, A. H. Pfund, and Willis Rodney Whitney.
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Correspondence, Astronomy, Solar eclipses, Scientific expeditions, Radiation, Planets, Research, United States, Stars, Measurement, Radio astronomy, Parapsychology, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Infrared spectroscopy, Description and travelPeople
C. G. Abbot (1872-1973), Willis Rodney Whitney (1868-1958), Dayton Clarence Miller (1866-1941), Cleveland Abbe (1838-1916), A. H. Pfund (1879-1949), George Ellery Hale (1868-1938)Places
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Open to research.
Gift, William W. Coblentz, 1952-1962.
Physicist and author.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.
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