Finding Aid to the Everett Hurlburt papers, 1924-1984Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1.0 American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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2008 Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Melanie J. Brown in December 2007. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process. Finding aid is written in English Description of the CollectionHurlburt, Everett H(arrington), Everett Hurlburt papers, 1924-1984. American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. 3 linear feet3 records boxes AR184 English This collection consists of reprints of articles authors by Everett Hurlburt and others, and documentation of Hurlburt’s work at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, and Office of Naval Research. Selected Search Terms

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Hurlburt, Everett Harrington, 1910-. Harvard University. National Science Foundation (U.S.) Radio astronomy. Radio. Biographical Note

Everett Hurlburt, astronomer and physicist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 6, 1910. He graduated from Western Reserve University with a B.A. in physics in 1933, followed by an M.A. from Harvard University in 1934 and a PhD from Ohio State University in 1940. He has worked as a physicist for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (1942-1947); in the Microwave Standards Section of the National Bureau of Standards (1947-1950); in the Electromagnetic Division of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (1951-1959); in the Electronics Branch of the Office of Naval Research (1959-1963); and as program director for the Astronomy Section of the National Science Foundation (1963-1970).

Everett Hurlburt was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma, American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society, American Astronautical Society, Washington Philosophical Society and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Scope and Contents of Collection

The papers of the Everett Hurlburt are comprised mostly of reprints by Hurlburt and others, scientific notes and records concerning his international travel for the National Science Foundation in the 1960s. The collection includes photographs, manuscripts, lecture notes, memoranda, press releases and certificates as well as a scrapbook on radio compiled by Hurlburt. This collection also contains correspondence - mainly letters to his family while a student at Harvard University. The focus of the collection is radio astronomy.

 Organization and Arrangement of Collection

Organized into seven series:

Series I: Correspondence Series II: Conferences Series III: Photographs Series IV: Works by Hurlburt Series V: Research files Series VI: Biographical and personal papers Series VII: Ephemera

This collection is arranged chronologically within each series.

 Access to Collection

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Provenance and Acquisition Information

This collection was a gift from Evelyn M. Hurlburt, to the American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library in August 1988.

 Processing Information

Lara D'Agaro December 2007.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], Everett Hurlburt papers, 1924-1984. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

 Container List Series I: Correspondence 11 Correspondence from E.H. Hurlburt to his mother, September 1933 12 Correspondence from E.H. Hurlburt to his mother, October 1933 13 Correspondence from E.H. Hurlburt to his mother, November 1933 14 Correspondence, 1969-1972 Series II: Conferences 15 National Academy of Sciences, Symposium on Radio Astronomy, Bloomington, Indiana, November 17, 1959 16 International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1960 17 International Scientific Radio Union XIIIth General Assembly papers, London, England, 1960 18 Holloman Summer Scientific Seminar in Astrophysics, notes from, Cloudcroft, New Mexico, June 19-30, 1961 19 Fifth International Conference on Ionization in Gases, Munich, Germany, August 28-September 1, 1961 110 International Astronomical Union/ International Scientific Radio Union Symposium No. 20, draft progress report to the organizing committee, September 20, 1962 111 International Astronomical Union/ International Scientific Radio Union, Canberra and Sydney, Australia, March 18-28, 1963 112 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Low Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation, Bad Homberg, Germany, July 22-August 2, 1963 113 International Scientific Radio Union General Assembly, Tokyo, Japan, September 5-20, 1963 114 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), annual report, Australia, 1964-1965 115 United States National Committee and International Scientific Radio Union meeting reports, 1967-1971 Series III: Photographs 116 Photograph of electronics section of Naval Research Laboratory, Summer 1945 117 Photograph of VHF equipment and graphs used in URSI-IRE talk, May 7, 1947 3 Photograph of Everett Hurlburt at Naval Research Laboratory (oversized), 1950 118 Photograph of class at Bumblebee course at Applied Physics Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University, September 22, 1954 119 Photographs and negatives of appearance on WTOP-TV, March 22, 1958 120 United States Naval Observatory information on time standards, photographs and reports, 1960-1962 and undated 121 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laser on Moon, photographs and report, 1962 3 Photograph of American Astronomical Society 115th meeting (oversized), December 26-28, 1963 122 Photographs of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia, 1963 123 Photographs of Apollo 17 and astronaut Schmitt on the moon, 1973 124 Photograph of Dr. Hurlburt's cy, undated 125 Photographs of measuring device, Radio I-Vacuum Tube Division, undated 126 Photographs of University of Illinois' radio telescope, Danville, Illinois, undated Series IV: Works by E.H. Hurlburt 127 A Bit of Travel, St. Nicholas, January 1924 128 Publications list and publication reprints, 1940-1941, 1952, 1955, 1963 and undated 129 A Simple Optical Device for Demonstrating the Conic Sections, School Science and Mathematics, December 1941 130 The Input Admittance of Three Typical Ultra-High Frequency Pentodes., 1943 131 Morton, J.A., with notes by E.H. Hurlburt, "Measurement of the Coefficients of Active Networks", 1944 132 Thermistor Studies for HASP, 1959 133 Radio Astronomy at the Universities and "Electromagetic Phenomena in the Audio and Sub-Audio Frequency Ranges," Naval Research reviews, September 1962, December 1963 134 Signals from Space, The Science Teacher, November 1964 135 Summary of Proposals for Large Radio Astronomy Facilities, 1967 136 The Determination of Impedance with a Double-Slug Transformer, undated 137 Effects of Tilting a Camera on Images of Vertical Parallel Objects, undated 138 High-Frequency Parameters of Vacuum Tubes, undated 139 The Input and Output Admittances of the 6AG5 Tube in the VHF Range, Naval Research Laboratory Report No. R-3054, undated 140 New Emission Lines in Radio Astronomy, undated 141 A Note of the Variation of Dielectric Properties with Frequency, undated 142 Notes on lectures by R.S. Elliott, undated 143 Patty, John R. and Hurlburt E.H., "Microwave Images" (photo), undated 144 Radio Astronomy in Office of Naval Research, undated 145 A Simplified Procedure for Making Conductance Measurements with the Concentric Transmission Line, undated 146 Theory and Measurement of the Four Vacuum Tube Admittances in the UHF Range, undated Series V: Research files 147 The Radiations, Sigma Pi Sigma, June 3, 1939 148 No. 2-C idiosynchrovisor specifications, 1944 149 Copson, E.T., revised by R.S. Elliott, "An Integral Equation Method of Solving Plane Diffraction Problems", 1946 150 Explanatory section for standards on methods of measuring vacuum tube admittances, 1946 151 Input admittance of receiving tubes, 1946 152 Kerns, David M. "The Basis of the Application of Network Equations to Waveguide Problems", June 30, 1948 153 The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. "Letter Symbols for Physics", September 1948 154 Papers relating to the HE magnetometer and to noise, 1948, 1950, 1960 and undated 155 Applications of electronic technics in medical research., October 10, 1949 156 Grantham, Rodney E., "A Reflectionless Waveguide Termination", 1950 157 Gallagher, P.B. "An Antenna for Studies in Meteor and Radio Astronomy at 13 Meters", September 30, 1957 158 Stiglitz, Irvin, "Conical Refraction by the use of an Artificial Microwave Dielectric", 1957 159 Naval Research Laboratory's 84-foot radio telescope, 1958 160 Lawrence, Robert S. and Jespersen, James L., "A Preliminary Analysis of Amplitude Scintillations of Radio Stars Observed at Boulder, Colorado", July 1959 161 Radar material provided by George Rae, 1959-1963 and undated 162 Observations of Shotput III, February 27, 1960 163 Purcell, Edward "Radioastronomy and Communication through Space," Brookhaven lecture series, November 16, 1960 164 Kundu, M.R. and Haddock, F.T., "A Relation between Solar Radio Emission and Polar Cap Absorption of Cosmic Noise", 1960 165 European travel records, January 27-February 20, 1961 166 Daily American , February 16, 1961 167 Aarons, Jules, "Studies and Measurements made of the Solar Eclipse of October 2, 1959", April 1961 168 National Science Foundation, Astronomy Program analysis of grants and obligations, 1961 169 Vitkevich, V.V., "A Major Center of Radio Astronomy-USSR", 1961 170 Carrara, N., Checcacci, P.F. and de Giorgio, M.T. "Study of Ionospheric Absorption during a Solar Eclipse, part I: Solar Eclipse", January 1962 21 Castelli, John P., Cohen, Helen W., Straka, Ronald M. and Aarons, Jules "Radio Measurements of Two Total Eclipses", August 1962 22 Alouette Satellite 1962 Beta Alpha One, defense research telecommunications establishment, Shirley Bay, October 1962 23 Program for the formal dedication of the University of Illinois radio telescope, November 9, 1962 24 Carr, Thomas D., "The Possible Role of Field-Aligned Ducts in the Escape of Decameter Radiation from Jupiter", 1962 25 Center for Radiophysics and Space Research Cornell University proposal to extend contract Nonr-401(27), 1962 26 Notes and letters on Office of Naval Research, 1962-1963 and undated 27 Length of service awards, 1962-1967 28 Australian National University, Mount Stromlo Observatory, annual report for 1962, January 8, 1963 29 Howard, W.E. III, Barrett, A.H. and Haddock, F.T., "Measurement of Microwave Radiation from the Planet Mercury", 1963 210 Reynolds, Donald K. and Swarm, H. Myron, "A Very Large Aperture Antenna Array for Space Communications Radio Astronomy and Wave Propagation Research," preliminary proposal, 1963 211 30-foot radio telescope, Berkeley, California, 1963 212 The Radiophysics Laboratory Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia, 1963-1964 213 National Science Foundation personal file, 1963-1968 214 Florida travel records, January 27-30, 1964 215 European travel records, August 2-September 6, 1964 216 Scientific department contact reports, 1964 217 Australia travel records, November 1965 218 The Algonquin Radio Observatory, Lake Traverse, Ontario, 1965 219 Cornell-Sydney University Astronomy Center, 1965 220 National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, West Virginia, 1965 221 Science Journal, October 1966 222 Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 1967 223 Bok, Bart J. and Bok, Priscilla F., "Photometric Standards for the Southern Hemisphere", August 1969 224 Bok, B.J., Hine, A.A. and Miller, E.W., "A Progress Report on the Carina Spiral Feature", August 29-September 4, 1969 225 The Nucleus, annual review of the Science Foundation for Physics and the School of Physics within the University of Sydney, January 1970 226 List of radio and radar astronomy observatories, 1973 227 Lynds, Beverly T., The National Observatories, 1976 228 National Science Foundation, in-house listing of grants and contracts awarded, 1976 229 Sky and Telescope editors, "Mr. Halley's Comet, Everyone's Complete Guide to Seeing the Celestial Event", 1984 230 Barrett, Alan H., "Microwave Spectral Lines as Probes of Planetary Atmospheres", undated 231 Data on radio astronomy antennas and programs, undated 232 Grant funding electronics branch-radio astronomy, undated 233 Hoyle, F. and Fowler, William A., "On the Nature of Strong Radio Sources, II", undated 234 Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, Manchester University , undated 235 Photogrammetric Structural Measurement Service, undated 236 Pioneer F plaque, undated 237 Prototype for the Bulletin of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami, undated 238 Radio field site facilities, California, undated 239 Tees, wave guides and loads, strip lines (1 of 2), undated 240 Tees, wave guides and loads, strip lines (2 of 2), undated 241 Through the Eyepiece, the Moon, undated 242 Tomiyasu, K., "Double-Slug Impedance Matching", undated Series VI: Biographical and personal papers 243 Scientific notes, 1926-1930 244 Programs of Shaw High School commencement, 1929 245 Scientific notes, volume I and index, 1930-1931 246 Scientific notes, volume II, 1931 247 Western Reserve University diploma, 1933 248 Membership certificates for science societies, 1938, 1940 and undated 249 Program for final oral examination for Doctor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University, 1940 250 Certificates of appreciation, 1947, 1958, 1963 251 Invitations, 1950 252 Certificates of course completions, 1961-1962 253 Biographical sketch of Everett Hurlburt (photo), undated 254 Radio scrapbook, undated Series VII: Ephemera 3 Milner, Thomas, "Astronomy," assembled by E.H. Hurlburt, 1928 3 International Astronomical Union pin, Hamburg, Germany, 1964