Papers

AIP Center for History of Physics: oral interviews of Douglas Aitken and of Malcolm Aitken, both interviewed by David DeVorkin, 1977; Interview of Malcolm D. Aitken by Eric Jackson, 1979.

UCSC Special collections: Shane, C. Donald, transcript of an interview taken on a tape recorder by Helen Wright on July 11, 1967; Shane, Mary Lee, transcript of an interview taken on a tape recorder by Helen Wright on July 15, 1967.

Other References: Historical

Aitken, Robert G., “Recent Progress in Double Star Astronomy: A Review,” PASP 34, 330 (1922).

Aitken, R.G., “The Lick Observatory, Forty Years After,” PASP 40, 151 (1928).

Aitken, Robert G., “Life and Work at Mount Hamilton,” California Monthly 9 (6) 9-12, 39-41 (1935).

Aitken, Robert G., “William Wallace Campbell, 1862-1938,” Science 88, 25 (1938); PASP 50, 204 (1938).

Aitken, Robert G., “February 7, 1889-February 7, 1939 and the Years Between,” PASP 51, 5 (1939). [on the first 50 years of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific].

Aitken, Robert G., “The Story of the Lick Observatory,” Griffith Observer 3, 38 (1939).

Aitken, R.G., “Comments from the Side Lines,“ Popular Astronomy 48, 457-465 (1940). [Brief reminiscences].

Aitken, Robert G., “Early Work on Double Stars at the Lick Observatory,” PASP 50, 189-203 (1938).

Osterbrock, D.E., J. Gustafson, & J. S. Unruh, Eye on the Sky: Lick Observatory’s First Century (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988).

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Other References: Scientific

Aitken, R.G., “Observations of the Transit of Mercury, November 10, 1894 At College Park, University of the Pacific,” PASP 6, 272 (1894).

Aitken, R.G., “On Double Stars,” PASP 16, 235-40 (1904).

Aitken, Robert G., “The Relation between the Separation and the Magnitude of Visual Double Stars,” Lick Obs. Bull., 6, 1-3 (1910).

Aitken, R.G., “The Masses of Visual Binary Stars,” PASP 31, 196-97 (1919).

Moore, J.H. & R.G. Aitken, “Note on Binary Star Statistics,” PASP 36, 326-31 (1924).

Aitken, R.G., “What We Know about Double Stars,” MNRAS 92, 7, 596-610 (1932). [George Darwin Lecture]

Aitken, Robert G. & Charlotte E. Moore, “Measures and Dynamical Parallaxes of 108 A double stars,” Lick Obs. Bull. 18, 53-56 (1936).

Aitken, Robert G., “Measures of 1865 A Double Stars,” Lick Obs. Bull. 18, 109-28 (1936).

Aitken, Robert G., “The Outlook for Double Star Astronomy,” Astronomical Journal 52, 32-33 (1946).

Aitken, Robert G., The Binary Stars (McGraw-Hill, 1935; Dover, 1964)

Aitken, Robert G., New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 120° of the North Pole (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC , 1932).

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Other References: Popularizations, History, etc.

Aitken, Robert G., “Why Popular Interest in Mars?” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1, 3-6 (1925) [Leaflet #2].

Aitken, Robert G., “How Far Away Is That Star, and How Do You Know?” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1, 19-22 (1926) [Leaflet #6].

Aitken, Robert G., “Weighing the Stars,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1, 85-88 (1929) [Leaflet #21].

Aitken, Robert G., “The Use of Astronomy,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2, 33-36 (1933) [Leaflet #59].

Aitken, Robert G., “Behold the Stars!,” in Mason, Frances Baker, ed., The Great Design; Order and Progress in Nature (Macmillan, NY, 1934).

Aitken, Robert G., “Stellar Motions and Stellar Distances,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2, 165- (1936) [Leaflet #92].

Aitken, Robert G., “Driving Back the Dark,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 3, 1-22 (1937) [Leaflet #101].

Aitken, Robert G., “What Time Is It. Please?” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 3, 70-77 (1938) [Leaflet #108].

Aitken, Robert G., “On Observing Double Stars,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 3, 131-38 (1938) [Leaflet #117].

Aitken, Robert G., “New Light on the Stars,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 4, 330-37 (1945) [Leaflet #191].

Aitken, Robert G., “The Discovery of the Planet Neptune,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 5, 88-94 (1946) [Leaflet #211].

Aitken, Robert G., “The Era of the Four Royal Stars,” Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 5, 225-33 (1948) [Leaflet #227].

Aitken, Robert G., “Calendar Reform from an Astronomer's Viewpoint,” JRASC 46, 89-92 (1951).

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