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100 1 _aWexler, Harry,
_d1911-1962.
245 0 0 _aHarry Wexler papers,
_f1929-1962.
300 _a13,000
_fitems.
300 _a44
_fcontainers.
300 _a19
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged 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.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aCorrespondents 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.
544 _3Dictaphone records
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
545 0 _aGeophysicist and meteorologist.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026
600 1 0 _aBaum, Werner A.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBrooks, Charles Franklin,
_d1891-1958
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDryden, Hugh L.
_q(Hugh Latimer),
_d1898-1965
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHarris, Oren,
_d1903-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHoughton, Henry G.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHunsaker, Jerome C.
_q(Jerome Clarke),
_d1886-1984
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aOdishaw, Hugh
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aReichelderfer, Francis W.
_q(Francis Wilton),
_d1895-1983
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aVon Neumann, John,
_d1903-1957
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWhipple, Fred L.
_q(Fred Lawrence),
_d1906-2004
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bAir Weather Service.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bWeather Bureau.
610 2 0 _aHarvard University
_xStudents.
610 2 0 _aMassachusetts Institute of Technology
_xStudents.
611 2 0 _aUnited States Antarctic Expedition
_d(1954-1959)
650 0 _aComputers.
650 0 _aGeophysics.
650 0 _aInternational Geophysical Year, 1957-1958.
650 0 _aMeteorological satellites.
650 0 _aMeteorology.
650 0 _aTIROS satellites.
650 0 _aUniversities and colleges
_zMassachusetts.
650 0 _aWeather forecasting.
651 0 _aAntarctica
_xDiscovery and exploration.
656 7 _aGeophysicists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aMeteorologists.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026.3
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