TY - GEN AU - Coblentz,William W. TI - William W. Coblentz papers, KW - Abbe, Cleveland, KW - Abbot, C. G. KW - Hale, George Ellery, KW - Miller, Dayton Clarence, KW - Pfund, A. H. KW - Whitney, Willis Rodney, KW - United States KW - National Bureau of Standards KW - Astronomy KW - Infrared spectroscopy KW - Parapsychology KW - Planets KW - Research KW - Radiation KW - Measurement KW - Radio astronomy KW - Scientific expeditions KW - Sumatra (Indonesia) KW - Solar eclipses KW - Stars KW - Europe KW - Description and travel KW - Authors KW - itoamc KW - Physicists N1 - Open to research N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009045 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009045.3 ER -