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View article: The Spectrum of He$^+$ as a Proving Ground for Bohr's Model of the Atom: A Legacy of Williamina Fleming's Astrophysical Discovery
The Spectrum of He$^+$ as a Proving Ground for Bohr's Model of the Atom: A Legacy of Williamina Fleming's Astrophysical Discovery Open
In 1896, Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), Director of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO), reported in a trio of publications the observation of "peculiar spectra" of the southern star $ζ$ Puppis, which he attributed to an "element …
View article: Embracing the Crowd: People-powered Research to Preserve the History of Astronomy
Embracing the Crowd: People-powered Research to Preserve the History of Astronomy Open
Project PHaEDRA (Preserving Harvard’s Early Data and Research in Astronomy) is a collaborative initiative led by Wolbach Library to digitize, transcribe, and enhance the metadata of over 2,500 notebooks and logbooks created from the mid-19…
View article: Project PHaEDRA: Preserving Harvard’s Early Data and Research in Astronomy
Project PHaEDRA: Preserving Harvard’s Early Data and Research in Astronomy Open
The staff of Wolbach Library, in collaboration with partners at both the Smith-sonian Institution and Harvard University, has begun a complex digitization and transcriptioneffort aimed at making a large collection of historical astronomy r…