04040cpcaa2200673 4500 mm 79045229 DLC 20260227111657.0 cr ||||||||||| 790823|||||||||||| eng mm 79045229 ms 64000782 DLC DLC dacs DLC S lcmd Wexler, Harry, 1911-1962. Harry Wexler papers, 1929-1962. 13,000 items. 44 containers. 19 linear feet. Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1929-1962; Series 2: Speech, Lecture, and Article File, 1930-1962; Series 3: Subject File; Series 4: Miscellany; and Series 5: Printed Matter. Open to research. 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. Dictaphone records 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 Baum, Werner A. Correspondence. Brooks, Charles Franklin, 1891-1958 Correspondence. Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965 Correspondence. Harris, Oren, 1903- Correspondence. Houghton, Henry G. Correspondence. Hunsaker, Jerome C. (Jerome Clarke), 1886-1984 Correspondence. Odishaw, Hugh Correspondence. Reichelderfer, Francis W. (Francis Wilton), 1895-1983 Correspondence. Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 Correspondence. Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004 Correspondence. United States. Air Weather Service. United States. Weather Bureau. Harvard University Students. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Students. United States Antarctic Expedition (1954-1959) Computers. Geophysics. International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958. Meteorological satellites. Meteorology. TIROS satellites. Universities and colleges Massachusetts. Weather forecasting. Antarctica Discovery and exploration. Geophysicists. itoamc Meteorologists. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026.3 42320 42320