Negative of Rand Herron's Letter to Mrs. Carpe, July 10, 1932
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content: Arthur C. Compton, a University of Chicago physicist, wondered if cosmic rays are affected by the magnetic field of the earth. The Mt. McKinley Cosmic Ray Expedition of 1932 was designed to test this idea. The several members of the team—Elbridge Rand Herron, Edward Pierrepont Beckwith, Theodore Koven, Nicholas Spadavecchia, and Percy T. Olton, Jr.--occupied the most northernly high stations on the mountain now known as Denali. Carpe and Koven died on the mountain.
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content: Ref: “CARPE GOES TO ALASKA FOR COSMIC RAY STUDY,” New York Times (April 17, 1932), p. N2.
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content: “BOTH PEAKS CONQUERED: Party Says Thermometer Left By Stuck in ’13 Shows 95 Below,” New York Times (May 17, 1932), pp. 1 and 3.
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content: “KARPE, COVEN DIED IN A FEAT OF DARING,” New York Times (May 18, 1932), p. 1.
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content: “DESCRIBES FINDING OF KOVEN’S BODY,” New York Times (Aug. 30, 1932), p. 38.
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content: Edward P. Beckwith, The Mt. McKinley Cosmic Ray Expedition (1933).
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content: “Edward P. Beckwith Dies at 89; Engineer, Chemist and Explorer,” New York Times (July 7, 1966), p. 36.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: PH.333716.02
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content: 333716.02
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content: 304693
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content: negative
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall; box: 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 5 5/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 11.43 cm x 14.2875 cm