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Griffin
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- 1953–1988 (Creation)
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Fonds
Extent and medium
bound volumes and card indexes; paper
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Name of creator
Biographical history
BA, PhD, ScD; Fellow of St John’s College 1962–1965 and 1972–2021; Emeritus Professor of Observational Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bequest of Roger Francis Griffin, 2021; received in 2022.
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Scope and content
The collection consists primarily of forty-two bound volumes covering Roger Griffin's research and publications from circa 1955 to circa 1991. Topics and publications include observation logs, Observatory Magazine, The Spectroscopic Binaries, Griffin's Fellowship dissertation for St John's, computing, RV reductions, spectroscopy, and radial velocities.
Seven card-index boxes, made by Griffin, contain many years' worth of raw data from radial-velocity spectrometer observations. Digital versions can be viewed at https://www.squarewheels.org.uk/rfg/unpub/ .
There are also notebooks containing material on observations and telescope maintenance, a chart roll of spectrometer output, a 1977 leaflet on the Cambridge North Norway Expedition, and papers on the Cripps development at St John's.
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Note
Preferred citation: St John's College Library, Papers of Roger Francis Griffin.