Preliminary Inventory of the Carleton Moore Papers

Collection

Identifier: 2004-03431 etc.

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists primarily of research files, notes, and indicies used to write A Bibliography on Meteorites. This volume was edited by Harrison Brown with associate editors Gunnar Kullerud and Walter Nichiporuk for the University of Chicago Press in 1953. Also included are two folders documenting a fire in Arizona State University's Chemistry Department that killed a student. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Ask an Archivist for more information.

Dates

Creation: 1949-1953, 1976

Creator

Moore, Carleton B. (Creator, Person)

Language of Materials

Material in English

Access Restrictions

To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Tuesday through Thursday, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.

Copyright

Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical Note

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Carleton Bryant Moore was born to Eldridge Carleton and Mabel Florence (Drake) Moore on September 1, 1932. He married Jane Elizabeth Strouse on July 25, 1959 and the couple had two children, Barbara Jeanne and Robert Carleton. Carleton Moore married his second wife, Diane Beets, on April 23, 2000.

Moore earned his B.S. (1954) and DSc (1977) from Alfred University and his Ph.D. (1960) from the California Institute of Technology. He taught at Wesleyan University (1959-1961) before coming to Arizona State University as the founding Director of the Center for Meteorite Studies. In addition to his work at ASU, Moore worked with a number of the Apollo missions and at the NASA Ames Research Center. He also wrote several books, including Cosmic Debris (1969), Principles of Geochemistry (1982), and Grundzügeder Geochemie (1985) and edited Researches on Meteorites (1961).