Collections
Personal Papers and Manuscript Collections
The majority of the manuscript collections in the Archives consist of personal papers of UCAR / NCAR researchers and staff. Among the collections are the papers of well-known NCAR scientists such as Philip D. Thompson, numerical weather prediction pioneer and NCAR's first associate director; Warren M. Washington, noted climate modeler, policymaker, and African-American Meteorologist; Gordon A. Newkirk, astrophysicist, creator of the white-light coronagraph; John Firor, High Altitude Observatory Director and NCAR Director Emeritus; and Vincent Lally, engineer and scientific ballooning pioneer.
Manuscript collections include records and data documenting NCAR field programs and the design of the Mesa Laboratory by I.M. Pei; drawings, correspondence, photographs, diaries, reports, and data from the High Altitude Observatory in Climax and Boulder, Colorado;
Vincent Lally in the late 1960s, with a GHOST balloon transmitter. |
records of NCAR divisions, facitlities and offices; publications about early supercomputers; material documenting the beginnings of NCAR and UCAR; and memorabilia from Walter Orr Roberts, NCAR's first director and UCAR's first president. Personal papers consist of correspondence, diaries, research notes, course materials, reports, drafts of published works, data, and visual materials, which document an individual's research, administrative, teaching and professional life. Donation of material often occurs at the retirement of a staff member, or at the completion of a project.
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