Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents note
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SCM0068
Creator:
Leighton, Philip Albert, 1897-1983.
Title: A Solstician Adventure, December 21, 1978
Dates: 1978-1981
Physical Description:
0.02 Linear feet (1 folder)
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Gift of the Stanford Historical Society, 1982.
Biographical/Historical note
Includes original introduction by Richard H. Eastman, 1981, photocopy of biography of Leighton by Douglas A. Skoog, c. 1981,
and photocopy of Leighton's manuscript, 1978, which concerns his viewing of the sunset from Point Arguello (Santa Barbara
County), with a brief history of the exploration of California.
Scope and Contents note
Leighton joined the Stanford University Dept. of Chemistry in 1928; he became a full professor in 1937 and served as executive
head of the Department from 1939 until his retirement in 1954.
Access Terms
Stanford University. Department of Chemistry. Faculty.
Stanford University. Department of Chemistry. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Point Arguello (Santa Barbara County, Calif.)
Winter solstice.