Dr. Oliver J. Lee

Cold waves will be accurately forecast more than a month in advance in the not too distant future, according to Dr. Oliver Justin Lee, head of Dearborn Astronomical Observatory.

He said it would undoubtedly be accomplished by science within our lifetime as a result of a world-wide study of solar radiation being made under the direction of leading scientific minds.

It will mean the saving of untold millions of dollars from crop losses in the world, and a tremendous advance to aviation.

"Since solar radiation is the basis of all life, science has been concentrating on it to give us the answers to many problems that now confront us," said Lee. "Specific instruments have been devised especially for this study of the changing intensity of the sun's radiation, and recordings are taken each day all over the world where the sun shines."

The sun is now going into the minimum stage of its 11-year sun spot cycle, Lee explained, and it leads us to the belief, sometimes, that intense cold weather is due in such a period. This does not hold true, he said, despite the fact that at times solar heat varies from 2 to 3% at the minimum sun spot stage.

Cold waves will be accurately forecast more than a month in advance in the not too distant future, according to Dr. Oliver Justin Lee, head of Dearborn Astronomical Observatory.

He said it would undoubtedly be accomplished by science within our lifetime as a result of a world-wide study of solar radiation being made under the direction of leading scientific minds.

It will mean the saving of untold millions of dollars from crop losses in the world, and a tremendous advance to aviation.

"Since solar radiation is the basis of all life, science has been concentrating on it to give us the answers to many problems that now confront us," said Lee. "Specific instruments have been devised especially for this study of the changing intensity of the sun's radiation, and recordings are taken each day all over the world where the sun shines."

The sun is now going into the minimum stage of its 11-year sun spot cycle, Lee explained, and it leads us to the belief, sometimes, that intense cold weather is due in such a period. This does not hold true, he said, despite the fact that at times solar heat varies from 2 to 3% at the minimum sun spot stage.

"We realize," said Dr. Oliver Lee, director of Northwestern university's Dearborn observatory, "that the army and navy are working on all sorts of things we know nothing about."

The globe was developed by astronomer Oliver J. Lee (1881-1964) after he had retired from a distinguished career at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.Lee received a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and completed his Ph.D at the University of Chicago in 1913.From 1910 to 1926 he was an instructor, assistant astronomer and lecturer at Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.He came to Northwestern in 1928, becoming the Astronomy Department Chair the following year, and serving as director of the campus' Dearborn Observatory from 1931 until he retired in 1947.Lee's scholarly work was published in the major astronomical journals and included discoveries of stellar parallaxes and solar eclipses, studies of the planetoid Eros, and the major achievement of classifying and charting 44,000 stars of the faint-red type in the northern hemisphere.He was a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science and the Royal Astronomical Society in London.In 1949, he wrote the popular book on astronomy, Measuring Our Universe.After retirement, he moved to Santa Cruz, California, but continued to teach and write until his death in 1964.Today the Northwestern University Archives house his papers.

Cartouche: Rand McNally/ Celestial Globe/ Edited by/ Dr. Oliver J. Lee,/ Magnitudes/ 4th 3rd 2nd 1st Larger/ 5th and smaller/ Cluster Nebula/ Copyright by/ Rand McNally & Co./ Made in U.S.A.

Notes of Interest: The Sixty-ninth Meeting of the AAS was held at Evanston, Illinois, Monday to Wednesday, December 28-30, 1942, on the invitation of Dr. Oliver J. Lee, Director of the Dearborn Observatory of Northwestern University.

Dr. Oliver J. Lee Prof of Astronomy and director of the Dearborn Observatory will go on the air Saturday night in a discussion of " Music in the Spheres" on his "Night Sky" series.Lee will be heard at heard at 10 o'clock over station WGN and the Mutual Broadcasting Station.

"We realize," said Dr. Oliver Lee, director of Northwestern University's Dearborn observatory, "that the army and navy are working on all sorts of things we know nothing about."

The magnetic evidence is pointed out by Dr. Oliver J. Lee of the Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University.