Astrophysicists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George Ellery Hale Papers
Collection
Identifier: HaleGE
Abstract
Digitized: this collection is available on the web. George Ellery Hale (1868–1938) was an influential astrophysicist and science administrator. This collection of Hale’s scientific, professional, and personal papers documents his roles in inventing the spectrohelioscope; promoting international cooperation among scientists; and founding major observatories, as well as the California Institute of Technology, Huntington Library, Astrophysical...
Dates:
1863 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1882 - 1938
Helen Wright Collection on George Ellery Hale
Collection
Identifier: 10175-MS
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of material collected by Helen Wright in the course of writing her 1966 biography of George Ellery Hale, Explorer of the Universe. It includes copies of documents which can also be found in the George Ellery Hale Papers, but also documents from other sources and Wright’s transcripts of some handwritten letters, particularly those from Hale to his wife and daughter.
Dates:
1887–1972
