Box MS-048 Box 3

Contains a proposal submitted under the New Laboratory Equipment Programme.

Contains a collection of summaries which was the outcome of lectures delivered at the Summer Conference for physics and astronomy college professors at Georgetown University. This publication was edited by M. P. Thekaekara, who was also the director of the Summer Conference.

Contains a thesis for Master of Science degree submitted by John Francis Giuliani, under the guidance of M P Thekaekara. Also includes a paper written jointly, titled "A Semi-Automatic Method Developed for the Reduction of Interferometric Data".

Contains a thesis for Master of Science degree submitted by Robert J Downling, most likely a student of M P Thekaekara.

Contains monthly reports mostly likely filed by M P Thekaekara for a contract with NASA.

Contains contract signed between Georgetown University and NASA-GSFC with M P Thekaekara as the principle investigator.

Contains graphs and calculations comparing data from NASA 711 to Drummond's Eppley-JPL data.

Contains letter from John C Arvesan regarding creating a standard value for solar constant and M P Thekaekara's review of Arvesan's work, sent as a draft to John N Howard for publication in Applied Optics.

Contains letters exchanged between M P Thekaekara and David G Murcray reviewing the various solar constant values.

Contains letters exchanged between M P Thekaekara, Richard C Willson, Eric G Laue, and J M Kendall reviewing JPL's solar constant value and an evaluation chart.

Contains a letter to Drummond from K Kondratyev commenting on Drummond's solar constant number (1.943 ly/min).

Contains a letter from Angstrom to Drummond reviewing the variations of the solar constant number amongst multiple researchers and discussing publsihing their jointly written paper.

Contains letters sent by Drummond to various peers, some including M P Thekaekara, regarding work with Solar Constant.

Contains a letter from P R Gast to M P Thekaekara reviewing the solar constant number by Drummond, Kondratyev, Murcray, and Thekaekara and concluding at 135.3 mWcm⁻².

Contains drafts of a letter to Howard from M P Thekaekara recommending publication of Drummond and Angstrom's paper in Applie Optics along with comments on a separate sheet.

Contains a letter to M P Thekaekara discussing atmostpheric studies, and the ASF programme, possibly at Martin Marietta Aerospace.