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Session 24 - HAD II.
Oral session, Monday, January 13
Pier 4,

[24.06] The Fund for Astrophysical Research: Ten Years of the Small Grants Program

A. R. Upgren (Yale and Wesleyan Univ.), L. H. Aller (UCLA), W. B. Dunham (Debevoise and Plimpton and F.A.R.), A. G. D. Philip (Union College and I.S.O)

The Fund for Astrophysical Research, Inc. is a non-profit research corporation, incorporated under the laws of New York State in 1936. It was founded in that year by Charles G. Thompson and Alice Bemis Thompson, to advance research in astrophysics. Theodore Dunham, Jr. served as its scientific director from its founding until his death in 1984. In 1985, the FAR created a program to distribute small research grants among the North American community of astronomers. The grants were named in honor of Dunham. This paper summarizes the results of the first decade of the program.

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