Wexler, Harry 1911-1962 creator mixed material monographic eng 13,000 44 19 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. Open to research. 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 Meteorologists mm 79045229 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026.3 Open to research. DLC 790823 20260227111657.0 mm 79045229