Santa Barbara / Washington / D.C. / Washington / Pasadena / Los Alamos / Los Angeles / /
Company
Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Bausch & Lomb / ADP / MIT Radiation Laboratory / DuPont / Mount Wilson/Palomar / /
Country
Netherlands / United Kingdom / Sweden / Chile / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Person Travel / Employment Change / /
Facility
Las Campanas complex / Lick Observatory / Lockheed San Fernando Solar Observatory / Las Campanas Observatory / University of Texas / California Institute of Technology / American Institute of Physics / University of California / Warsaw University / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Niels Bohr Library / McDonald Observatory / Mount Wilson Observatory / University of Toronto / University of Birmingham / MIT Radiation Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
electronics horace welcome babcock / fire control radar systems / suitable site / public media / mountain site / licensed amateur radio operator / /
NaturalFeature
Andes / mountain Palomar / mountain Palomar Observatories / Mount Wilson / Mount Wilson/Palomar / Mount Wilson Observatory / Mount Palomar / /
Organization
University of California / American Institute of Physics / Committee on the Magellanic Premium / Center for History of Physics / Astronomical Society of the Pacific / University of Texas / California Institute of Technology / MIT / Harvard / Bureau of Standards in Washington / Warsaw University / University of Birmingham / Carnegie Institution / MIT Radiation Lab / Royal Astronomical Society / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / University of Toronto / /
Person
John D. Hooker / George Preston / Mary Babcock / Carl Anderson / Eduardo Frei / Nicholas Mayall / Spencer Weart / Jan Oort / Edwin Hubble / Otto Struve / Robert Oppenheimer / George Ellery Hale / Thomas G. Cowling / Allan Sandage / Larry Webster / Harold Delos Babcock / Harold Babcock / Charles Lauritsen / Dale Vrabec / Horace Welcome Babcock / Arthur Vaughan / Bruce / Hannes Alfvén / Horace Babcock / Ira Bowen / Kenneth / Ike Bowen / Margaret Burbidge / Trinity / Henrietta Swope / Betty / /
Position
director of the combined Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories / Captain / director of the Hale Observatories / single research astronomer / businessman / president / observer at the Lockheed San Fernando Solar Observatory / astronomer / Staff Astronomer / head / laboratory spectroscopist / group leader / remarkable administrator / assistant / assistant astronomer / first director / director of Mount Wilson and Palomar / astute judge / scientist / research assistant / teacher / model / assistant director / Caltech physics professor / chief negotiator / director / director of the joint Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories / director in later years / chief / /
ProvinceOrState
New Mexico / California / Texas / /
PublishedMedium
Astrophysical Journal / the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific / Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society / /
H O R A C E WE L C O M E B A B C O C K 13 september 1912–29 august 2003