Call Number:

C0554

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

5 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Newton Lacy Pierce Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1937-1950 (inclusive)

Creator:

Pierce, Newton Lacy, 1905-1950

Form:

Articles -- 20th century., Astronomers -- New Jersey -- Princeton --20th century., Correspondence -- 20th century, Faculty papers --New Jersey -- Princeton--20th century., and Typescripts -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of articles, correspondence, and related materials on astronomy of Newton Lacy Pierce, a professor of astronomy at Princeton University.

Newton Lacy Pierce earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1937 and later became an associate professor of astronomy at the university and assistant director of the Princeton Observatory. He gained wide recognition as an observational astronomer, particularly for his study of eclipsing variable stars.

The collection consists of articles, correspondence, and related materials on astronomy of Pierce, a professor at Princeton. The collection contains mainly correspondence between him and academic colleagues, astronomical societies, and scholarly journals, but also includes typescripts of articles on astronomy for the yearbooks of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1938-1946) and Collier's Encyclopedia (1937-1949), and reviews and errata of his book Marine and Air Navigation, co-authored with John Q. Stewart.