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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Stanislaus Vasilevskis papers
creator:
Vasilevskis, Stanislaus
Identifier/Call Number: MS.255
Physical Description:
6.3 Linear Feet
7 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1943-1989
Collection is open for research.
This collection is organized into eight series:
- 1. Correspondence
- 2. International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- 3. Research
- 4. Teaching and lectures
- 5. Conferences
- 6. Lick Observatory
- 7. Kitt Peak Observatory
- 8. Biography and bibliography
Materials within each series are arranged in chronological order, unless otherwise specified.
Stanislaus Vasilevskis was an astronomer and astrometrist born in 1907 in Latvia. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of
Riga in 1939, and migrated to the United States, where he began working at the Lick Observatory as an assistant astronomer
in 1945. Under the directorship of C.D. Shane, he worked on the observatory’s proper-motion study, which was launched in 1947.
In 1954, Vasilevskis was promoted to assistant astronomer and faculty member at Lick Observatory, and also began supervising
the proper-motion study. As part of this project, Vasilevskis was involved in taking multiple series of thousands of photographs
of the northern sky, and thereby measured the movements of more than 300,000 stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Vasilevskis was
promoted to full Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1966, the same year that the Lick Observatory moved its operations
and administration to UC Santa Cruz. He retired from the University of California in 1974, and then served as a visiting professor
at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands for a few years. Vasilevskis died in 1988 at the age of 80 in Palo Alto, California.
Stanislaus Vasilevskis papers. MS 255. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa
Cruz.
Most folder titles are derived from the original folder labels.
Additional Vasilevskis correspondence from 1951-1960 can be found in Series 1 of the Lick Observatory records:
This collection documents the career of Lick Observatory astronomer Stanislaus Vasilevskis, and includes his professional
correspondence, International Astronomical Union documentation, notes and reports from various astronomical and astrometric
conferences, subject files, materials on various research programs at Lick Observatory, lectures and teaching notes, and other
research materials.
Property rights for this collection reside with the University of California. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained
by the creators and their heirs. The publication or use of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use
for research or educational purposes requires written permission from the copyright owner. Responsibility for obtaining permissions,
and for any use rests exclusively with the user. For more information on copyright or to order a reproduction, please visit
guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/reproduction-publication.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Astronomy
Lick Observatory
Vasilevskis, Stanislaus
Vasilevskis, Stanislaus