Harvard Astronomers in the Second World War

For a fuller account than the abstract given here, with appropriate notes, see Peggy Kidwell , “Harvard astronomers in World War II”, Science at Harvard University: Historical perspectives , ed. by Elliott Clark A. Rossiter Margaret W. (Bethlehem, Penn., in press).

See Ron Doel , “Redefining a mission: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on the move”, in this issue of Journal for the history of astronomy. .