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Correspondence, speeches, lectures, articles, subject files, biographical material, printed matter, weather charts and statistics, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Wexler's career as a geophysicist and meteorologist. Documents his work with the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Weather Service of the U.S. Air Force. Includes material on meteorological satellites such as TIROS I and the use of high-speed computers for numerical weather prediction and weather modification; records of the U.S. expedition to the Antarctic for the International Geophysical Year; and the Antarctic journal (1955-1959) kept by Wexler as chief scientist of the expedition in which he provides a detailed record of the organization and conduct of the mission. Includes papers from his school years at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Correspondents include Werner A. Baum, Charles Franklin Brooks, Hugh L. Dryden, Oren Harris, Henry G. Houghton, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Hugh Odishaw, Francis W. Reichelderfer, John Von Neumann, and Fred L. Whipple.
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Correspondence, United States. Weather Bureau, International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958, Computers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Students, Meteorology, United States. Air Weather Service, United States, United States Antarctic Expedition (1954-1959), TIROS satellites, Geophysics, Universities and colleges, Harvard University, Meteorological satellites, Weather forecasting, Discovery and explorationPeople
Oren Harris (1903-), Hugh Odishaw, Fred L. Whipple (1906-2004), Hugh L. Dryden (1898-1965), Charles Franklin Brooks (1891-1958), Francis W. Reichelderfer (1895-1983), Henry G. Houghton, Jerome C. Hunsaker (1886-1984), John Von Neumann (1903-1957), Werner A. BaumPlaces
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Open to research.
Gift, Mrs. Wexler, 1963.
Transfer, U.S. Weather Bureau, 1964.
Transfer, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1971.
transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Geophysicist and meteorologist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026
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