Photoelectric Photometer
notes: label: Description
content: While working towards a PhD in astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley in the mid-1930s, Gerald Kron (1913-2012) built this photoelectric photometer and tested it on the 36-inch refractor at the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. The photometer remained in use for several decades.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gerald E. Kron, “The New Photoelectric Photometer of the Lick Observatory,” <i>Lick Observatory Bulletin</i> 499 (1939): 53-56.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gerald Kron
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0340.01
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0340.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0340
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photoelectric photometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 43 cm x 21 cm; 10 13/16 in x 16 15/16 in x 8 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 8 in x 6 3/8 in; 41.91 cm x 20.32 cm x 16.1925 cm