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Covers international contacts concerning meteorites, grants, honors, and Henderson's retirement in 1965, c. 1937-1965, including: relations with Russia, especially 1960 trip, exchanges, visitors to Washington, D.C., meteorite fall movie, and colleagues; exchanges with European collections; field work in Australia with Brian H. Mason; grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to purchase collections, acquire an electron microprobe, and analyze lunar samples; receipt of an honorary degree in 1963 from University of Bern, Switzerland, and the Lawrence Smith Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1970; his retirement in 1965; establishment of the Henderson Meteorite Fund.

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Henderson, Edward P., interviewee
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Edward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews
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Interviews
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9529, Edward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews
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ebl-1615312838738-1615312838852-0
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  • Online Finding AidEdward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews

View Rebecca Henderson, wife of Edward P. Henderson, Curator in the Department of Geology at the National Museum of Natural History, accompanied her husband on his trip to Australia to collect meteorites. She sits in a land vehicle named Rockhound I near Undoolya Gap in Central Australia, 1965. [Image no. 85-7032]
View Edward P. Henderson, following his retirement as Curator of the Division of Meteorites in the Department of Mineral Sciences at the National Museum of Natural History, made a trip to Australia to collect meteorites. Pictured are sheep-shearing pens in Nocoleche, Australia, 1965. [Image no. 85-7030]
View From Left to Right: Douglas Boerner, Oliver Chalmers; and Edward P. Henderson are prospecting with metal detectors in Henbury, Australia, location of the Henbury Crater, 1965. [Image no. 85-7038]

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