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Giacconi, Riccardo
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circa 1971-2004
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6.49 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (2 16x20 boxes) (4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-020
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the professional papers of Riccardo Giacconi (1931-2018), including materials surrounding Giacconi's winning of the Nobel Prize in 2002. Additional topics include the European Southern Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and x-ray telescopes.
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Giacconi, Riccardo
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circa 1958-1992, 2008
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28 cu. ft. (28 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 10-142
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the professional papers of Riccardo Giacconi (1931-2018), an astrophysicist specializing in x-ray astronomy and who was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of cosmic x-ray sources. Giacconi's papers document his research, participation in the larger astrophysics community, and influence on ...
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Giacconi, Riccardo, interviewee
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2004
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5 audiotapes (Reference copies).videotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9617
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
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Giacconi, Riccardo
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1955-2002
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82.13 cu. ft. (80 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (1 blueprint storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7416
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document Riccardo Giacconi's professional career, and consist of papers illustrating his scientific work and administrative records relating to the institutions at which he worked. There is extensive documentation of Giacconi's professional activities, including meetings attended, papers presented (and published), his services a...
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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Division of Space History
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1983-1991
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3.7 Cubic feet (15 cassette boxes; 5 letter-size document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0035
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the oral history transcripts and related research documentation for the Space Telescope History Project (STHP), which examined the space sciences, predominantly astronomy, viewed through the lens of a particular undertaking, the Hubble Space Telescope, 1970s-1980s.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. High Energy Astrophysics Division
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1973-1985
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 467
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of administrative memoranda distributed by Benson Rowe, the Program Manager for the Division. The memoranda concern budgets and expenditures, personnel actions, travel and work requests, and other administrative matters. They do not contain the product of the Division's scientific research, although budgeting and ...
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National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
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circa 1988-1993
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-118
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the correspondence files of Robert W. Smith in his official capacity as Historian of the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum. It includes correspondence with Smithsonian Institution and Space History officials and other professional colleagues.
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1910, 1921, 1938, 1954-2000
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9.5 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-263
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by James C. Cornell, Jr., a public information specialist and publications manager for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). SAO jointly administers the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) with the Harvard College Observatory. Materials primarily consist of phot...
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12.5 cu. ft. (5 file cabinet drawers)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7098
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Biographical Information File contains biographies of individuals associated with the Smithsonian as either administrative officers, curators, collectors, donors, regents, or research associates. Occasionally biographies of individuals less closely associated with the Institution are included.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Office of the Director
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circa 1966-1994
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51.5 cu. ft. (51 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-100
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the administration of Irwin I. Shapiro, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Director, and consist mostly of correspondence, memoranda, notes, publications, reports, project files, travel files, budget materials, directories, program files, recommendations, personnel files, grant pro...
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