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Astronomy -- Study and teaching

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Albert W. Recht Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M193
Abstract Albert William Recht was an astronomer and educator at the University of Denver from 1932 to his death in 1962. The collection includes tapes of various lectures used on "public nights" at Chamberlin Observatory, newspapers clippings, bulletins of the Chamberlain Observatory, a copy of "A Space Trip for the Joneses," Chamberlin Observatory publications, photographs, notes for Recht's address to the National Amateur Astronomers Convention held in Denver (1959) and...
Dates: 1930 - 1962

Astronomy Students Using Telescope in Chamberlin Observatory, 1947

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Identifier: U201.01.0017.0029.00012
Abstract

A male student looks through the telescope inside Chamberlin Observatory on the University Park Campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, while a female student looks on.

Dates: 1947

Herbert Alonzo Howe Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M010
Abstract Herbert A. Howe (1858-1926) was Professor of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Director of Chamberlin Observatory, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. He was instrumental in building the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory (1890) named after Humphrey B. Chamberlin. Howe oversaw the installation of the Observatory's Saegmuller telescope with its 20-inch Clark refractor. Howe's notebooks contain...
Dates: 1856-2002