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Title: A Solstician Adventure, December 21, 1978
Identifier/Call Number: SCM0068
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 folder(s)
Date (inclusive): 1978-1981
creator:
Leighton, Philip Albert, 1897-.
creator:
Leighton, Philip Albert,, 1897-1983.
Gift of the Stanford Historical Society, 1982.
Includes original introduction by Richard H. Eastman, 1981, photocopy of biography of Leighton by Douglas A. Skoog, c. 1981,
and photocopy of Leighton's manuscript, 1978, which concerns his viewing of the sunset from Point Arguello (Santa Barbara
County), with a brief history of the exploration of California.
Leighton joined the Stanford University Dept. of Chemistry in 1928; he became a full professor in 1937 and served as executive
head of the Department from 1939 until his retirement in 1954.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry--Faculty.
Point Arguello (Santa Barbara County, Calif.)
Winter solstice.