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.
Object Details
- Collection Creator:
- Henderson, Edward P., interviewee
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- Edward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews
- Edward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews / Interviews
- Container
- Interviews
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9529, Edward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews
- Record ID
- ebl-1615312838738-1615312838852-0
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- CC0