American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase III: Ground-Based Astronomy, Materials Science, Heavy-Ion and Nuclear Physics, Medical Physics, and Computer-Mediated Collaborations.

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A documentation research project to study the complex issues facing the historical documentation of multi-institutional collaborations in physics and allied sciences. Phase III focused on four disciplinary areas of ground-based astronomy, materials science, heavy-ion physics, and medical physics, and a category named computer-mediated collaborations. The Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) study was part of a series of four cases to study collaborations that built astronomical observatories. Their design and construction were subject to collaboration management. The ARC built the observatory at Apache Point, New Mexico. The collaboration included the University of Chicago, University of Washington, Washington State University, Princeton University, and New Mexico State University. The objective was to build an optical telescope approaching national-observatory capabilities at 1/4 to 1/3 the cost. Subsequently, the collaboration added Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Advanced Study to develop a digital sky survey project that did not include New Mexico State or Washington State. Universities contributed their own funds to cover most of the costs of the telescope, but the National Science Foundation funded site development and contributed a mirror whose design and construction it was independently supporting. The Sloan Foundation paid half the costs of the sky survey, whose formal title is the Sloan Digital

Sky Survey (SDSS). The optical telescope was in operation and SDSS was in construction at time of interviewing.

From the description of Oral history interviews. Ground-based astronomy: Astrophysical Research Consortium, 1996-1997. (American Institute of Physics). WorldCat record id: 83850001

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associatedWith Alfred P. Sloan Foundation corporateBody
associatedWith Astrophysical Research Consortium. corporateBody
associatedWith Capitos, Anthony, person
associatedWith Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics) corporateBody
associatedWith Chompalov, Ivan. person
associatedWith Genuth, Joel, person
associatedWith Gunn, J. E. person
associatedWith Heckman, Timothy M. 1951- person
associatedWith Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.). corporateBody
associatedWith Johns Hopkins University. corporateBody
associatedWith Lutz, Julie H. person
associatedWith Margon, Bruce. person
associatedWith New Mexico State University. Astronomy Dept. corporateBody
associatedWith Ostriker, J. P. person
associatedWith Princeton University. corporateBody
associatedWith Shrum, Wesley, 1953- person
associatedWith University of Chicago. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Washington. corporateBody
associatedWith Warnow-Blewett, Joan. person
associatedWith Washington State University. corporateBody
associatedWith Weart, Spencer R., 1942- person
associatedWith York, Donald Gilbert, 1944- person
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Astronomical observatories
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Group work in research
Physics
Physics
Sociology
Sociology
Telescopes
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Active 1997

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