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SI History Chronology
- Title:
- Astrophysical Observatory Established
- Date:
- March 1, 1890
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SI History Chronology
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- Charles G. Abbot Elected Secretary
- Date:
- January 10, 1928
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SI History Chronology
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- Div. of Radiation and Organisms Funded
- Date:
- July 1, 1941
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SI History Chronology
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- SAO Moves to Harvard College Observatory
- Date:
- July 1, 1955
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SI History Chronology
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- Dalgarno Receives Hodgkins Medal
- Date:
- January 16, 1978
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SI History Chronology
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- Abbot Becomes Director of SAO
- Date:
- March 1, 1907
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SI History Chronology
- Title:
- S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary, 1964-1984, Dies
- Dates:
- 19th century
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SI History Bibliography
- Creator:
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-
- Title:
- The View From the Castle: How our dwindling wilderness inspired Secretary Langley to start a zoo-- and how the elephants came, two by two
- Date:
- July 1970
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SI History Bibliography
- Creator:
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-
- Title:
- The View From the Castle: The death of the seventh secretary comes as a personal as well as a professional loss for the Smithsonian
- Dates:
- 19th century
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SI History Bibliography
- Creator:
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-
- Title:
- The View From the Castle: The late Charles Greeley Abbot--inventor, solar authority, astrophysicist, singer--was the fifth secretary of the Institution
- Date:
- February 1974
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