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- 1977 – 2007 (Creation)
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0.1m of textual records
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Sub-series consists of records documenting Bolton’s work as a scientific advisor and proposal reviewer. Records relate specifically to his involvement on the Telescope Observing Time Assignment Committees between 1977 and 2007 for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Obervatorio Intermericano De Cerro Tololo (CTIO), Gemini Observatory, and NASA’s International Ultraviolet Explorer. Additionally, records relate to his review of funding and grant proposals for the National Science Foundation, NSERC, and the Chilean Research Council (FONDECYT). There are also some files related to Bolton’s review of proposals for research project at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Los Alamos and the development of an astronomy program at King Abdul Aziz University in Arabia. Records include correspondence, observing time proposal applications, grant applications, project proposals, and evaluation forms.
For file list, see Sub-series 7.2: Proposal Reviews in Appendix I.
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Files are organized chronologically.
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Open
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Related units of description
Additional correspondence related to Bolton’s review of proposals are located in Series 2: Correspondence.