TY - GEN AU - Wexler,Harry TI - Harry Wexler papers, KW - Baum, Werner A. KW - Brooks, Charles Franklin, KW - Dryden, Hugh L. KW - Harris, Oren, KW - Houghton, Henry G. KW - Hunsaker, Jerome C. KW - Odishaw, Hugh KW - Reichelderfer, Francis W. KW - Von Neumann, John, KW - Whipple, Fred L. KW - United States KW - Air Weather Service KW - Weather Bureau KW - Harvard University KW - Students KW - Massachusetts Institute of Technology KW - United States Antarctic Expedition KW - (1954-1959) KW - Computers KW - Geophysics KW - International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958 KW - Meteorological satellites KW - Meteorology KW - TIROS satellites KW - Universities and colleges KW - Massachusetts KW - Weather forecasting KW - Antarctica KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Geophysicists KW - itoamc KW - Meteorologists N1 - Open to research N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026.3 ER -