urn:taro:utexas.cah.00317 A Guide to the Franklin E. Roach Papers, 1955-1972 12/15/2003Encoded in XMetal 2 by Telesa Rountree according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. June 2005 Edited by Evan Hocker Descriptive Summary Roach, Franklin E. Franklin E. Roach Papers 1955-1972Materials are written in English. 2002-142 1 ft Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Working papers of Franklin E. Roach. A bulk of the material includes research notes and publications. Biographical Note

Franklin E. Roach (1905-1993) began his career as an astronomer working for the Yerkes Observatory while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He was the first astronomer to be stationed at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory. Roach worked there using a small camera to observe photographic photometry and polarimetry of reflection nebulae. This innovative program was Roach's start in quantitative photometric measurements of large, low surface-brightness areas, which he was to perfect in his later research on the night-sky light.

After two years at the McDonald Observatory, Roach left in 1936 to become an associate professor at the University of Arizona teaching astronomy and physics. In the course of his career, Roach produced over 100 publications. Such works included articles published in the Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards , the Journal of Geophysical Research, The Astrophysical Journal, and the Light of the Night Sky.

 Scope and Contents

Correspondence, research notes, technical reports, observations, photographs, assorted clippings, as well as publications document the work of Franklin E. Roach. The collected works of Roach's contemporaries which document observations and research on such topics as: the photometry of the aurora, the earth's orbit, brightness of moonlight, and airglow photometers, comprise the bulk of the papers.

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 Preferred Citation

Franklin E. Roach Papers, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Index Terms Roach, Franklin Evans University of Texas at Austin W.J McDonald Observatory Astronomy Airglow observations Airglow observations periodicals Photometry, Astronomical Atmospheric transparency Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 4Zf304 Correspondence 4Zf304 Clippings 4Zf304 Map of Alpine, Texas 4Zf304 National Bureau of Standards Reports 4Zf304 National Bureau of Standards Reports: technical notes 4Zf304 Publications 4Zf304 Undated and unpublished 4Zf304 1955-1958 4Zf304 1959-1962 4Zf304 1963-1968 4Zf304 1971-1972 4Zf304 Book, The Light in the Night Sky 4Zf304 Photographs (copied) 4Zf304 Research notes (booklet) 4Zf304 Technical Report 1964 4Zf304 Technical Report July 1968 4Zf304 White Mountain research station items 4Zf304 W.J. McDonald Observatory 4Zf304 Collected publications of Roach's contemporaries 4Zf304 Collected publications of Edward Ashburn (colleague)