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SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context
VIAFrevised2015-09-18machineCPF merge programMerge v2.0revised2016-08-10T13:37:12machineSNAC EAC-CPF ParserBulk ingest into SNAC Databaserevised2016-08-10T13:37:12humanSystem Service (system@localhost)created2024-03-29machineSNAC EAC-CPF SerializerSNAC Identity Constellation serialized to EAC-CPFpersonSchmidt, Maarten.presumedSchmidt, Maarten, 1929-....presumedSchmidt, M., 1929-....presumed1929-12-28Fowler, William A.Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002.Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008Schmidt, Maarten.Fowler, William A. Oral history interview with William Alfred Fowler, 1972 June 8, 1973 Feb. 5, 1974 May 30.Fowler, William A.Weiner, Charles.Oral history interview with William Alfred Fowler, 1972 June 8, 1973 Feb. 5, 1974 May 30.Audio tape: 3 5-inch reels, 2 cassettes (9.75 hrs.)Transcript: 224 pp. (3 sessions)Early education and career; graduate training at Caltech, with Charles C. Lauritsen's group; collaboration at Kellogg Laboratory, structure of Caltech physics department after 1939. Relationships with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Lauritsen. Fowler's and Caltech's war work, Lauritsen's role in setting up Office of Naval Research (0NR) for federally funded postwar research. Postwar career at Caltech; federal funding for research, relationships among Caltech, Jet Propulsion Lab and ONR. Work through 1950 in nuclear physics, astrophysics, element synthesis in stars, influence of Hans A. Bethe, Jesse Greenstein; Ira Bowen/Lauritsen seminars; astronomical observations. Fellowship to Cavendish Laboratory, 1954-1955; beginning of collaboration with Frederich Hoyle and Geoffrey Burbidge; return to Caltech, further work on stellar element synthesis with Burbidges, personalities of G. Burbidge and F. Hoyle; contemporary views on cosmology. Work in realistic astrophysics in the 1960s; continuing collaboration with Hoyle; position of Caltech and Kellogg Lab in physics and radio astronomy, work on government committees. Concludes with highlights of career. Also prominently mentioned are: Margaret Burbidge, Horace Richard Crane, Albert Einstein, Richard Phillips Feynman, Robert Andrews Millikan, Martin Ryle, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Leonard Schiff, Maarten Schmidt, Hans Süss, Kip S. Thorne, Richard Chace Tolman, Merle Antony Tuve, Harold Clayton Urey, Ernest Watson, Ward Whaling; National Science Board (U.S.), National Science Foundation (U.S.), Ohio State University, and University of Cambridge.Niels Bohr Library & ArchivesJohn Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008, 1880-2008Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008 1880-2008150.0 Linear feet, Ca. 17,000 itemsThere are correspondence, notebooks, reports, recordings, etc. of this award-winning physicist and pioneer theorist on the existence of black holes. A student of Karl Herzfeld at Johns Hopkins University, John Archibald Wheeler studied nuclear fission with Neils Bohr. The numerous volumes of research notebooks in the collection, Wheeler's daily record of calculations, meetings attended and conversations held about his work, are of primary significance. Among other subjects, they cover physics, nucleonics, quantum electrodynamics, and relativity. The correspondence in the collection contains many personal evaluations of scientists (subject to restrictions on use), as well as Wheeler's contributions to promoting physics and scientific education and training in general. There are important series relating to his participation in the 1950s on the Committee on Scientific and Technical Personnel of NATO, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, and his organizational work on the Joint Committee of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society on the History of Theoretical Physics in the Twentieth Century.American Philosophical SocietyGreenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002. Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1977 April 7 to 1978 May 19.Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002.Weart, Spencer R., 1942-Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1977 April 7 to 1978 May 19.Transcript, 257 pp.Childhood in New York City; studying astronomy and literature at Harvard University (1925-1929, M.A. 1930); work during the Depression in real estate and at Columbia University; graduate education in the new astrophysics at Harvard, 1934-1937, contacts with Harlow Shapley, Cecilia Payne (Gaposchkin), Henry N. Russell; work at Yerkes Observatory from 1937: nebular spectroscopy, stellar composition, stellar atmospheres; contacts with Otto Struve, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Bengt Strömgren; optical design work during World War II. Move to Caltech, 1947, contacts with Walter Baade, Ira Bowen, Fritz Zwicky, Maarten Schmidt, Lee Dubridge, etc.; organization, administration, research conditions, and allocation of observing time at Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories; work in building up astronomy department at Caltech, character of staff relations, and fund-raising. Postwar work on abundances of elements, white dwarf stars, high-dispersion spectroscopy, radio astronomy, and quasars; ideas about cosmology and other topics. Involvement with military advising at Caltech from 1950, satellite reconnaissance, and industrial advising; early work on rocket astronomy and as senior adviser to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), ca. 1957-1977. Editor of "Stellar Atmospheres" series; work with National Academy of Sciences and author of its 1972 astronomy survey; efforts to popularize astronomy. Ideas about large space- and ground-based telescopes. Particular attention is given to the organizational strengths and weaknesses of important astronomy organizations. Also prominently mentioned is: Alexander Velikovsky. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library