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Call Number: SC0658
Creator:
Walker, A. B. C.
Title: A. B. C. Walker papers
Dates: 1983-1990
Physical Description:
18 Linear feet
Summary: Collection pertains to his research and teaching and includes
grant files (proposals, budgets, correspondence, etc.); photographs of stellar phenomena
(prints and negatives); drawings, graphs, charts and computer printouts; and files from
the classes he taught at Stanford.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
A. B. C. Walker Papers (SC0658). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Arthur B. C. Walker, an innovative astrophysicist and a mentor of women and minority
students, was a professor of applied physics at Stanford University from January 1974
until his death in 2001. He earned his B.S. in physics at Case Institute of Technology
in 1957 and his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1962. After completing his
doctorate, he served 3 years in the U.S. Air Force at the Weapons Laboratory and then
joined the Space Physics Laboratory of the Aerospace Corporation. At Stanford, Walker
constructed, launched, and carried out observations of the Sun's Corona in successive
rocket launched payload experiments.
Collection pertains to his research and teaching and includes grant files (proposals,
budgets, correspondence, etc.); photographs of stellar phenomena (prints and negatives);
drawings, graphs, charts and computer printouts; and files from the classes he taught at
Stanford.
Stanford University. Dept. of
Physics--Faculty.
Walker, A. B. C.
Astronomical instruments.
Sun--Corona.
X-ray astronomy.