Harlan True Stetson papers
Dates
- 1906 - 1961
Creator
- Stetson, Harlan True, 1885-1964 (Person)
Access note
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Biography
Harlan True Stetson, 1885-1964, BS 1912, Brown University; MA, Dartmouth College; PhD, University of Chicago, taught physics at Dartmouth, then astronomy at Harvard, 1916-1929; he then became director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University. He came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936 as a research associate on cosmic terrestrial relationships, and directed MIT's Cosmic Terrestrial Research Laboratory, 1940-1950. His research included the study of the earth's crust, sunspots, and radio wave propagation.
Extent
57 Cubic Feet (in 53 record cartons, 4 oversize boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Location
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Processing Information note
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- Astronomy -- Research Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Geophysics -- Research Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Radio wave propagation. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Söderberg, C. Richard (Carl Richard), 1895-1979
- Stetson, Harlan True, 1885-1964
- Sunspots -- Research. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Creator
- Stetson, Harlan True, 1885-1964 (Person)
- Title
- Preliminary Inventory to the Papers of Harlan True Stetson
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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