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Series of solar flares
Photographer unknown
Contributor
Photographer unknown
Identifier
EB 224
Subject
Date
1920
Type
Image
Format
B&W
Repository
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Collection
Margot Einstein and Helen Dukas collection on Albert Einstein
Rights
Permission to use this image must be requested from the Institute's Archives. Please contact archives@ias.edu.
Description
This series of images of solar flares were presented to Albert Einstein by Oliver Justin Lee (1881-1964). The back of the photograph is inscribed to Einstein by Lee and dated May 6, 1921, which is during Lee's tenure (1910-1926) as instructor, assistant astronomer and lecturer at Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The series of images, which were taken on October 8, 1920, are numbered 1-7 and include additional details about the photographs: "1. 9:30 a.m. 60,000 km light" and "7. 2:00 p.m. 500,000 km light" and "Last stages at 2:30 pm 831,000 km."
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