Matthew Pothen Thekaekara Papers
Content Description
This accession contains material belonging to Matthew Pothen Thekaekara. The material received by the Archives includes reprints, publications, letters, photo albums, and media clippings.
Dates
- Creation: 1937 - 1976
Creator
- Aradhya, Dhatri S (Processing Archivist, Person)
- Thekaekara, Mathew Pothen (Creator, Person)
- Drummond, A J (Person)
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright may not have been assigned to Archives, National Centre for Biological Sciences. Permission for reproduction or distribution must be obtained in writing from the Archives at NCBS (archives@ncbs.res.in). The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use.
Biographical / Historical
Matthew Pothen Thekaekara was a solar physicist and Roman Catholic priest. He was born in 1914 in India. He moved to the United States in 1952 and spent seven years as a faculty at Georgetown University. In 1967, he served as the principal investigator for The NASA 711 Galileo Experiment where he and a team of 18, measured the solar constant and solar spectral irradiance from a research aircraft flying at 38,000 feet above the atmosphere. Their findings were compiled in a report published by the Godard Space Flight Centre, NASA in 1970 where they found the solar constant to be equal to 135.3 mW cm -2.
Full Extent
5.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The intellectual arrangement strives to preserve provenance and original order of the papers. Where an original order could not be found, the Archives has applied an order, and folders within sub-series are arranged usually in chronological or alphabetical order. See Scope and Content section for details.
Subject
- National Science Foundation (Organization)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (Organization)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) (Organization)
Occupation
Topical
Uniform Title
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives at NCBS Repository
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