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Lampland, C.O., World War I Letter from Carl O. Lampland to Dorothy Issac-Roberts (Director of the Bureau of Measurements, Paris Observatory), September 12, 1916, 1916-09-12

Lampland requests copies of Isaac Roberts' negatives of nebulae for measurement and comparison with negatives made recently at LO

Difficulties in…

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Lampland, C.O., Effects of the Great Depression Lowell Observatory Personnel Update Letter from Carl Lampland to James H. Worthington, December 19, 1933, 1933-12-19

'The Call to the Engineers and Scientists' by Professor Walker

The 'world's dilemma': conditions prevailing today practically everywhere on the…

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Lampland, C.O., World War II R Aquarii Letter from Carl Lampland to Paul W. Merrill (Mt. Wilson Observatory), February 10, 1942, 1942-02-10

Conference on R Aquarii

Effects of war conditions on Lowell Observatory

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Lampland, C.O., World War II Letter from Carl Lampland to W.A. Cogshall (Indiana University), January 31, 1945, 1945-01-31

Lampland's work at the 13-inch dome with the large spectroradiometer installed for observations of the Sun

War-time conditions

Military…

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Lampland, C.O., Lead up to World War II Russia/Soviet Union Letter from Carl Lampland to R.S. Dugan (Princeton University), April 24, 1938, 1938-04-24

Report to Dugan from Lampland at Lowell

Ambitious research programs and the plight of the Russian scientists

Weather in…

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Lampland, C.O., World War II Letter from Carl Lampland to Ralph B. Larkin, February 8, 1938, 1938-02-08

Larkin's visit to Lowell Observatory, the Southwest and various planetariums across the US

Incensed at Japan's antics, lessons of the first World…

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Lampland, Carl O., Meteor Crater Affects of the Great Depression Letter from Carl Lampland to Daniel M. Barringer, Jr., March 21, 1933, 1933-03-21

Papers on Meteor Crater

Odessa crater

Richard Barringer

The hard economic times have made it necessary to discontinue explorations at the…

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Lampland, Carl O., V-2 Rocket Launchings Letter from Carl Lampland to Clyde Tombaugh, November 28, 1946, 1946-11-28

Letter from Dr. Zwicky of Cal Tech regarding the firing of a V-2 rocket

Plans to track the rocket at the observatory with Henry Giclas

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Lampland, Carl O., V-2 Rocket Launchings The Cold War Letter from Carl Lampland to Clyde Tombaugh, February 1, 1948, 1948-02-01

Question on launching of V-2s

International tensions between the U.S. and Russia

U.S. demobilized much faster than it should have

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Lampland, Carl O., V-2 Rocket Launchings The Cold War Letter from Carl Lampland to Clyde Tombaugh, April 11, 1948, 1948-04-11

Question on launching of V-2

International tensions between the U.S. and Russia

U.S. demobilized much faster than it should have

Tags: Events