Boller and Chivens

Boller and Chivens was an American manufacturer of high-quality telescopes and spectrographs headquartered in South Pasadena, California.

Boller and Chivens

Industry	Astronomical telescopes, cameras and other precision instruments
Founded	c. 1946
Founder	Harry B. Boller and Clyde C. Chivens
Headquarters	South Pasadena, California, United States
Website	bollerandchivens.com (archival site)

The Baker-Nunn satellite tracking camera.

The Ruth Crisp Telescope at the Carter Observatory in Wellington, New Zealand, a 41-cm (16-inch) Cassegrain reflector built by Boller and Chivens.

History

Founded about 1946 by Harry Berthold Boller (1915-1997) and Clyde Cuthbertson Chivens (1915-2008).^[1] the company was acquired in 1965 by Perkin-Elmer.^[2]

In the 1950s, Boller and Chivens collaborated with Perkin-Elmer to develop and manufacture the large-aperture Baker-Nunn satellite tracking camera for the United States Vanguard space satellite program.^[3]

In culture

A 41-cm (16-inch) Boller and Chivens Cassegrain reflector originally housed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Oak Ridge Observatory in Massachusetts is available for public use at the National Air and Space Museum's Public Observatory Project on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.^[4]