Word: plaskett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professors who have been asked to stand in the receiving line with their wives for 25-minute periods are: Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, chairman of the Department of Government; Professor C. H. Haring '07, chairman of the Department of History; Professor H. H. Plaskett, professor of Astrophysics; H. E. Clifford '89, dean of the Engineering School; L. J. Henderson '98, chairman of the Department of History of Science; Captain B. B. Wygant, chairman of the Department of Naval Science; and J. B. Conant '13, chairman of the Department of Chemistry. J. L. Coolidge '95, chairman of the Department...
...Professor Anne S. Young of Mt. Holyoke College; Tuesday, October 21, "Measuring Starlight" by Professor E. S. King; Thursday, October 23, "Something about Comets" by Leon Campbell; Tuesday, October 28, "More About Nebulae" by Miss Adelaide Ames; Thursday, October 30, "The Interior of a Star" by Professor H. H. Plaskett. The last four speakers are connected with the observatory. The open nights are being held under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club...
...first of these visiting scientists is Dr. J. S. Plaskett, director of the Dominion Observatory at Victoria, B. C. On April 9 Plaskett received the Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, at which time he addressed the Academy on the subject of the Gases in Interstellar space. Dr. Plaskett has also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal As tronomical Society for his researches in the rolation of the Galaxy. His son is Professor H. H. Plaskett of the Harvard Observatory staff. Dr. Paul ten Bruggencate, professor of Astrophysics in the University...
Other awards were made to: W. H. Pickering, Assistant Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, H. H. Plaskett, Associate Professor of Astrophysics, J. H. Ropes '89, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Morgan Upton, Instructor in Physiology and in Psychology, and J. H. Woods '87, Professor of Philosophy...