John E. Pfeiffer Radio Astronomy Correspondence Unit

This collection of letters and articles was gathered by John Pfeiffer while he was preparing his book on radio astronomy and its history, The Changing Universe (Random, 1956). Pfeiffer gave the letters to Kraus, who transmitted them to the Ohio State University Library, Division of Special Collections, in 1976. Kraus kept copies of all the material, and it is the copies that are here included, along with some additional material collected in 1959 by Reed Crone, Kraus' research assistant, and the correspondence related to the transmission of the papers to the Library. The letters include correspondence with members of the Karl G. Jansky family, with Grote Reber, George Southworth, and Walter Baade. Also included are articles on Jansky and his discoveries from Bell Laboratory Record, a transcript of a radio broadcast on May 15, 1933, and C.M. Jansky's 1956 presentation about his brother to the American Astronomical Society. Copying of correspondence is prohibited; for permissions contact the Ohio State University Library, Division of Special Collections. The correspondence covers the period 1933-1976.

Papers of John Daniel Kraus

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1933

1976

This material has been filed under the letter P in the General Correspondence alphabetical sequence.

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