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Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002. Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1974 July 31.

Title: Oral history interview with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, 1974 July 31.

Childhood in New York; high school experience at Horace Mann; Harvard undergraduate at the age of 15. Impressions of ordeal with Harlow Shapley. Depression years in the family business, return to a very changed Harvard in 1934. Thesis work on Interstellar Absorption (Bart Bok), Ph.D. 1937. Postdoc at Yerkes Observatory (Otto Struve) working on Upsilon Sagittarius. Develops the 140-degree camera (the Greenstein-Louis G. Henyey camera); work with Fred Whipple on radio signals from space (Karl Jansky, Grote Reber), Greenstein's and Reber's review article on classified radio detection work during World War II. Founding of the Astrophysics Department at Caltech. Radio astronomy in the mid-1950s. Work on white dwarfs from 1957 on. Own accomplishments as scientist and in personal life. Impressions of Martin Schwarzschild, Shapley, Reber, Fred Hoyle. Also prominently mentioned are: Walter Sydney Adams, Lloyd Viel Berkner, John Bolton, Leverett Davis, William Alfred Fowler, Leo Goldberg, Louis Henyey, Fred Hoyle, Edwin Powell Hubble, Milton Lasell Humason, Robert Hutchins, Karl Jansky, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Tom R. Matthews, Robert Reynolds McMath, Donald Howard Menzel, Paul Merrill, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, William Wilson Morgan, Guido Münch, Beverly Oke, Donald Osterbrock, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Robert Richardson, Allan Sandage, Jan Schildt, Shklovsky, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Lyman Spitzer, Edward Teller, Richard Chace Tolman, Robert Julius Trumpler, Merle Antony Tuve, Albrecht Otto Johannes Unsöld, Immanuel Velikofsky, Fred Whipple; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Hale Observatories, Harvard College Observatory, Lick Observatory, McDonald Observatory, McDonald Observatory Nebular spectrograph, National Science Foundation (U.S.), 100-inch Telescope, University of Chicago, and Vista Project.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 45 pp.

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George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

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Van de Kamp, Peter, 1901-. Three conferences on astronomy and cosmology [motion picture] / photographed by Peter Van de Kamp.

Title: Three conferences on astronomy and cosmology [motion picture] / photographed by Peter Van de Kamp. 1955-1964.

Film includes footage of three conferences in the following order: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagrams Symposium, U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 22-24, 1964. Attendees include: Bart Jan Bok, Fricke, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Haro, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Willem Jacob Luyten, Oosterhoff, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Allan Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild, Kaj Strand, and Worley. Cosmic Distance Scale Conference, University of Virginia, April 5-7, 1956. Attendees include: Walter Baade, Bart Jan Bok, Gerald Maurice Clemence, Frank Kelley Edmondson, Otto Heckmann, Helen Hogg, Howard Johnson, Philip Childs Keenan, Sarah Lee Lippincott, Willem Jacob Luyten, William Wilson Morgan, Jason John Nassau, Robert M. Petrie, Jan Schilt, Martin Schwarzschild, Kaj Strand, Vesilevskis, Alexander Vyssotsky, Nicholas Wagman, and Albert Edward Whitford. A meeting of a steering committee, Princeton, April 3, 1955. Attendees include: Alden, Walter Baade, Adriaan Blaauw, Willem Jacob Luyten, Jason John Nassau, Jan Schilt, and Alexander Vyssotsky

ArchivalResource: 1 film reel (ca. 20 min.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.

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Velghe, A. Lectures in Astronomy 211, fall term, 1956-1957.

Title: Lectures in Astronomy 211, fall term, 1956-1957.

Mimeographed.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Struve (Otto) Papers

Title: Struve (Otto) Papers

Correspondence, most of it prior to Struve's service in the Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, biographical materials, bibliographies of his writings, photographs, and some papers relating to various members of the Struve family. Also includes materials concerning his interest and activity in astronomy while at U.C. Berkeley and the International Astronomical Union.

ArchivalResource: 5 Linear Feet Number of containers: (4 cartons); Linear feet: 5.0

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Arp, Halton C. Oral history interview with Halton Christian Arp, 1975 July 29.

Title: Oral history interview with Halton Christian Arp, 1975 July 29.

Childhood and unconventional early education; Harvard University: impressions of courses and social climate; Caltech, Mt. Wilson, comments on Walter Baade and background of Baade's theory; differences between astronomy and astrophysics; early professional career work on Magellanic clouds; interest in peculiar galaxies, Viktor A. Ambartsumian at the 1957 Solvay Conference; Fritz Zwicky; Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies; comments on published papers: Distribution of Quasars compared to Maarten Schmidt's work with similar title; Edoard Stephan's quintet; work on discrepant red shift with respect to the Friedman universe; future research interest, non-professional interests. Also prominently mentioned are: Basch, Bart Jan Bok, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Edwin Powell Hubble, Milton Lasell Humason, Bernard Lovell, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Jan Hendrik Oort, Edison Petit, Robert Richardson, Allan Sandage, Maarten Schmidt, Harlow Shapley, Dick Stoy, Vanderlaan, Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs; Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Institut de Physique at Solvay, and United States Navy.

ArchivalResource: 1 sessionTranscript: 27 p.

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Bart Bok collection, 1928-1983

Title: Bart Bokcollection, 1928-1983

The Bart Bok collection (1928-1983) documentshis astronomical research, instruction and administration at HarvardUniversity, the Australian National University, the University of Arizona andassociated observatories. The collection includes material relevant to thestudy of galactic structure and dynamics and interstellar matter, withparticular emphasis on: The Milky Way, Dark Nebulae, Star Formation, SpiralStructure of the Galaxy, Star Clouds of Magellan and Radio Astronomy. The bulkof the collection is comprised of correspondence (1945-1983), and includesbiographical, research, professional and public lecture, instruction, subject,publication and photograph files.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear feet (Approximately 35,000 items)

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Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983. Oral history interview with Bart Jan Bok, 1978 May 15 to 14 June.

Title: Oral history interview with Bart Jan Bok, 1978 May 15 to 14 June.

Interview discusses, not in chronological order: early home life and schooling; undergraduate at Leiden, influence of Paul Ehrenfest, Jan H. Oort, Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Gerard Kuiper, Antonie Pannekoek, Ejnar Hertzsprung. Recollections of work of Georg Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit. Assistant to Peter van Rhijn at Groningen ca. 1928, work on various stellar and galactic topics. Move to Harvard, 1929, and atmosphere there under Harlow Shapley. Marriage to Priscilla Fairfield Bok; her contacts with William W. Campbell. Search for and interpretation of spiral auras of our galaxy; studies of stellar density distribution. Activities during World War II. Harvard astronomy group's difficult postwar transition; McCarthyism. Work on nebulae and globules. Comments on astronomy at Mt. Wilson, Tonantziutla, and South Africa. Origins of Harvard radio astronomy and National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and their funding. Move to Australia, 1956, and conditions there. Move to Steward Observatory of University of Arizona, 1964, and conditions there. Location of national observatory at Kitt Peak; management of Kitt Peak. Discussions of astronomy, education, popularization, employment, and organization. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, McGeorge Bundy, Edwin F. Carpenter, Tom Cherry, James Bryant Conant, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Sergei Gaposchkin, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Haro, David Heeschen, Ejnar. Hertzsprung, James Jeans, Ivan Robert King, Bertil Lindblad, Antonia Maury, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, Joseph McCarthy, Sidney McCuskey, Aden Meinel, Donald Howard Menzel, Robert Menzies, James E. Miller, Edward Arthur Milne, William Wilson Morgan, Edward Charles Pickering, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Nathan Pusey, Martin Schwarzschild, Willem de Sitter, Otto Struve; American Astronomical Society, Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy, Associated Universities, Inc., Boyden Observatory, Case Institute of Technology, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard Series on Astronomy, Indiana University, Mount Stromlo Observatory, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, University of Arizona, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of Texas.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 10 sound cassettes (ca. 9.0 hr.), 4 sessions.Transcript: 166 p.

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Bok, Bart Jan, 1906-. Lectures in Astronomy 241, fall term 1953-1954.

Title: Lectures in Astronomy 241, fall term 1953-1954.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

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Oort, Jan Hendrik. Papers, 1919-1975.

Title: Papers, 1919-1975.

The collection includes research files, notes on research projects, general correspondence files from 1945-1975, and personal correspondence files from 1922 onwards (e.g. with Bok, Van de Kamp, Kuiper, Van Rhijn, Baade, Struve, Blaauw); correspondence and papers on the organization of astronomy and on the establishment of the Leiden Southern Station at Hartebeespoortdam (South Africa), the radio observatories at Dwingeloo and Westerbork, the European Southern Observatory; the establishment of "Astronomy and Astrophysics, a European Journal." Agendas, minutes and correspondence concerning the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the Senate of Leiden University, the Leiden Academic Arts Centre, the Leiden Observatory Fund, the Committee for Geodesy and Space Research (GROC), the Board of Curators of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Academic Council, and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. Also lecture notes (both University and Popular Lectures), preparatory notes for symposia etc., records and diaries of foreign visits, and notes on discussions with colleagues, etc.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 cu. ft.

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Bart Bok collection, 1928-1983.

Title: Bart Bok collection, 1928-1983.

The Bart Bok collection (1928-1983) documents his astronomical research, instruction and administration at Harvard University, the Australian National University, the University of Arizona and associated observatories. The collection includes material relevant to the study of galactic structure and dynamics and interstellar matter, with particular emphasis on: The Milky Way, Dark Nebula, Star Formation, Spiral Structure of the Galaxy, Star Clouds of Magellan and Radio Astronomy. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence (1945-1983), and includes biographical, research, professional and public lecture, instruction, subject, publication and photograph files.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear feet (ca. 35,000 items)

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Watson, Fletcher G. (Fletcher Guard). Oral History interview with Fletcher G. Watson, 1990 November 20.

Title: Oral History interview with Fletcher G. Watson, 1990 November 20.

In this interview, Watson begins with a discussion of his early education and his introduction to science and astronomy, then continues to discuss: his undergraduate experiences at Pomona College, and his move to graduate school at Harvard University; his professional and social relationship with Harlow Shapley; his recollections of other physicists and scholars at Harvard; his move into the field of astronomy education; and a broad comparison between a career as a scholar and a career as an educator. Other affiliations and topics discussed include: Bart Bok, Walter Whitney, meteor observation, meteorite craters,

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 51 pages.Audio tapes: 3 cassettes (2.5 hours).

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Dunham, Theodore, 1897-1984. Selected papers [microform], 1921-1979, (bulk 1930-1960).

Title: Selected papers [microform], 1921-1979, (bulk 1930-1960).

Correspondence and manuscripts. Chiefly correspondence, mostly professional, with astronomers and other scientists. Topics include optical design and application in astronomical instrumentation for a wide range of purposes, planning for spectroscopic work at Mount Stromlo, suggestions for research at Harvard College Observatory, and application of physical methods to medical research. Also contains selected manuscripts and research proposals, miscellaneous personal items on appointments and awards, and family photographs. Correspondents include Bart J. Bok, E. Arthur Milne, Marcus L. Oliphant, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, Lyman Spitzer, Otto Struve, Albrecht Unsöld, and Richard Woolley.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels.

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Chang, Yü-che. Oral history interview with Yü-che Chang, 1979 August 18.

Title: Oral history interview with Yü-che Chang, 1979 August 18.

Training and influences on his career during graduate years at University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory in the late 1920s. Discussion of science education and the growth of astronomy in China, activities of the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanking, and Chang's directorship. Effects of the war for Liberation; discussion of astronomy during the Japanese occupation. Other topics include contact with Bart Bok, visits to Yerkes after World War II, and research in astronomy in China.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 21 p.

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Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967. Correspondence, 1903-1966.

Title: Correspondence, 1903-1966.

Includes correspondence with a large number of astromers and physicists. Some of the names included in the correspondce are: Robert G. Aitken, A. Blaauw, Niels Bohr, Bart J. Bok, Frank K. Edmonson, P. Ehrenfest, the International Astronomical Union, Hamilton M. Jeffers, Gerard P. Kuiper, J. H. Oort, Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin, Frank Schlesinger, K. Schwarzschild, H. Shapley, O. Struve, and B. Strömgren.

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Strand, K. Aage (Kaj Aage), 1907-2000. K. Aage Strand papers, 1875-1999 (bulk 1947-1977).

Title: K. Aage Strand papers, 1875-1999 (bulk 1947-1977).

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, reports, notes, subject files, oral history, biographical material, printed matter, slides, photographs, and other papers relating to Strand's career as professor of astronomy at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; scientific director of the United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.; and director of the observatory's Astrometry and Astrophysics Division. Subjects include astrometry, astrometric instrumentation design, double star photography, and scientific research for the U.S. military during World War II. Correspondents include Arthur Beer, Bart J. Bok, Dirk Brouwer, William A. Fowler, W. Fricke, H.L. Giclas, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Arthur Allen Hoag, L. Houziaux, Carlos Jaschek, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Jan Hendrik Oort, Bengt Strömgren, Otto Struve, Arthur R. Upgren, Peter Van de Kamp, and the Strand family.

ArchivalResource: 15,000 items.16 containers.16 linear feet.

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De Berg, Hazel, 1913-1984. Papers [manuscript].

Title: Papers [manuscript]. 1959-1963.

The collection contains: letters from poets and artists including Eleanor Dark, Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Sumner Locke Elliott, Xavier Herbert, A. D. Hope, Dorothea Mackellar, Ian Mudie, and Katharine Susannah Prichard; a transcript of tape-recordings (1 v.); typescript for book "All roads lead to Rome" by Frank Clune; a list of books received with the collection, catalogued and shelved in the Whelan collection; a curriculum vitae for Grace Cuthbert Brown M.B.E. M.B. Ch.M., F.R. O.G.; a transcript "about Virgil Reilly" and biographical data on Bart. J. Bok.

ArchivalResource: 15 cm. (1 box)

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Kharadze, Evgenii Kirillovich, 1907-. Oral history interview with Evgenii Kirillovich Kharadze, 1979 August 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Evgenii Kirillovich Kharadze, 1979 August 20.

Brief interview focussing on professional development; growth of astronomy in the U.S.S.R. and the growth and development of the Abastumani Observatory in Soviet Georgia. Includes commentary on the rebuilding of astronomy after World War II, modes of funding for science, growth of instrumentation, and contacts with other leading astronomers. Also prominently mentioned are: Bart Jan Bok, Numeroff, Shajn; Abastumani Observatory, Crimean Observatory, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, International Astronomical Union, Tbilisi State University.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 12 p.

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Bok, Bart Jan, 1906-1983. Papers, 1930s-1983.

Title: Papers, 1930s-1983.

Biographical files, correspondence, subject files, teaching files, observation files, publications, and photographs relating mostly to his career as an astronomer, director of observatories, and professor from 1960 to 1983.

ArchivalResource: ca. 21 ln. ft.

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Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983. Papers of Bart J. Bok, 1930-1957 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Bart J. Bok, 1930-1957 (inclusive).

Consists of personal correspondence. Related publications and reference material also available in repository.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. of mss.

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Bok, Bart Jan, 1906-. Lecture in Astronomy 211, 1955.

Title: Lecture in Astronomy 211, 1955.

One mimeographed lecture, dated March 3, 1955.

ArchivalResource: 3 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Schwarzschild, Martin. Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzschild, 1977 March 10 to 19 July 1979.

Title: Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzschild, 1977 March 10 to 19 July 1979.

Life of his father, Karl Schwarzschild; father's scientific relationships in Göttingen (Felix Klein, David Hilbert); move to Potsdam, 1909; relations with Potsdam and Berlin scientists (Albert Einstein, Karl Sommerfeld); father's Jewish background concealed. M. Schwarzschild's youth in Göttingen and Berlin; early education, interest in astronomy and mathematics. Undergraduate at Göttingen Universität (Hans Kienle, Richard Courant, Neugebauer), 1930-1933; graduate work at Gottingen Observatory, 1933-1935; his reaction to Nazism. Introduction to astrophysics (Arthur Eddington), interest in stellar interiors and stellar evolution; contacts with other astronomers from Gottingen Observatory (Otto Heckmann, Kienle, Rupert Wildt); comments on general relativity; interest in pulsating stars; leaves Göttingen, 1936. Postdoctorate at Oslo (Svein Rosseland); Jan Oort, Ejnar Hertzsprung; mechanical analog computer for computations in astrophysics and celestial mechanics; comments on development of theory of stellar interiors, 1939-1950. To Harvard College Observatory (Harlow Shapley), 1938; C. Payne-Gaposchkin, Bart Bok; comparison of European and American observational style, social scene; Barbara Schwarzschild's difficulties as female astronomer; contacts with S. Chandrasekhar and other astronomers. Tour of the United States; visits Mt. Wilson Observatory (Wilhelm Baade, Rudolph Minkowski, Edwin Hubble, Milton Humason), 1940; Shapley's relationship with Mt. Wilson staff. Harvard (Fred Whipple), 1938-1941; Shapley as a leader; astronomy summer school at Harvard; work on Cepheid variables in M3 (Bok, Chandrasekhar); overall impact on Schwarzschild of Harvard period. Columbia University (Jan Schildt, I. I. Rabi), 1940-1942; difficulties there; origin and funding of Thomas Watson Astronomical Computing Center; discussion of cosmology in the late 1930s; contacts with physicists (Enrico Fermi). In U.S. Army, 1941-1945; enters as private, teaches math to recruits; refuses invitation to Los Alamos; transferred to Aberdeen Proving Ground, dissatisfaction there; to officers training school, does bombing analysis for Italian campaign. Work relating to stellar interiors and evolution, 1938-1946; nuclear energy source ideas (Hans Bethe, Fermi); Eddington, Gerard Kuiper, Chandrasekhar, G. Keller; German astronomers during World War II (Ludwig Biermann). Discussion of wife's career and her role in his career. Early ideas about red giants (Öpik, Herman Bondi, Fred Hoyle), 1946-1950. Work on acoustic wave energy transport (R. Richardson, Gold); work on chemical composition differences in stellar populations. To Princeton University (Spitzer, H. N. Russell), 1947; Project Matterhorn (start of bomb and fusion projects); relationship with Russell. Stellar evolution work in the 1950s; computer work (John Von Neumann, Richard Härm), mid-1950s; collaboration with Allan Sandage evolving a stellar model, 1952; computing towards red giants; observational cluster work, 1951; ages, metallicity, and the Big Bang; beginnings of "astrophysical" cosmology. Evolution theory after late 1950s; effect of computers on theoretical progress; relation of evolution theory to cosmology; general comments on his work in stellar evolution; interactions with Robert Dicke; views on cosmology, general relativity. Need for better solar convection work leads to use of balloons (James Van Allen); post-Sputnik funding; on cooperation with industry and engineers; Stratoscope II (Bob Danielson, Spitzer). Years advising the National Science Foundation, President's Science Advisory Committee, 1959-1976, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Von Neumann), to 1969; The International Astronomical Union, 1964-1970; American Asronomical Society, 1967-1973. Informal advisor to various observatories: Kitt Peak National Observatory, Mt. Wilson-Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Southern Observatory. Recent work on galactic structure. Reflects on importance of ethical standards; his feelings about religion and nature.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 9 sound casssettes, 2 5-inch sound reels, 4 sessions.Transcript: 201 p.

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Edmondson, Frank K. (Frank Kelley), 1912-. Oral history interview with Frank K. Edmondson, 21 April 1977 and 2 February 1978.

Title: Oral history interview with Frank K. Edmondson, 21 April 1977 and 2 February 1978.

Early home life in Indiana, and early schooling. Origins of his interest in astronomy and the influence of both family and teachers. College years at Indiana University and contacts with members of the astronomy department there (E.C. and Vesto M. Slipher). Discussion of history of Indiana University Astronomy Department, and its contact with the Lowell Observatory. Graduate school at Harvard University, Peter van de Kamp's influence, work in stellar kinematics, impressions of atmosphere at Harvard. Faculty position at Indiana University, 1937 to present. Origins of Goethe Link Observatory, and the growth of the department. Organizational work in the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Work at National Science Foundation (NSF) as scientific officer for astronomy, 1956, and development of National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO); NSF and AUI; NRAO directors; Sputnik; Kitt Peak Observatory site survey, NSF and Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA); Aden Meinel; John B. Irwin's proposal for a photoelectric observatory; Flagstaff Conference; Robert McMath Panel; structure of Kitt Peak staff; Chilean observatory and development of Cerro Tololo; Gerard Kuiper's role in southern observatory; European Southern Observatory (ESO), Carnegie Southern Observatory (CARSO) and AURA joint Paris meeting; Russian interests in southern observatory; CARSO application to Ford Foundation; agreements between AURA and. CARSO; building telescopes at Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololoth︣e WISCO dispute; policy problems; AURA Board meetings; demise of Space Division at Kitt Peak; Whitford Panel; White Sands rocket project; astronomy and teaching at Indiana. Also prominently mentioned are: Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, Lawrence Hugh Aller, Bart Jan Bok, William A. Cogshall, James Cuffey, H.T. Davis, Arthur Foley, Paul Herget, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Virgil Hunt, Geoffrey Keller, C.O. Lampland, Robert Reynolds McMath, Edward Arthur Milne, Samuel A. Mitchell, William Wilson Morgan, Jason John Nassau, Henry Norris Russell, Frederico Rutllant, Charles Donald Shane, Harlow Shapley, Jurgen Stock, Otto Struve, Merle Antony Tuve, Herman B. Wells, K.P. Williams, Marshall Wrubel; Associated Universities, Inc., Ford Foundation, Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System, Lick Observatory, McDonald Observatory, and Yerkes Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 148 p.

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Osterbrock, Donald E. Oral history interview with Donald E. Osterbrock, 1982 January 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Donald E. Osterbrock, 1982 January 21.

Focusses on work during his graduate student years at Yerkes Observatory with Stewart L. Sharpless under the supervision of William Morgan. Morgan's use of H II regions of spiral arms, the Greenstein-Henyey camera, AAS meeting; death of his father; other astronomers' spiral arms and methods; OB stars; doctoral thesis; improvements in infrared photography of galaxies. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Bart Jan Bok, Butler Burton, Arthur D. Code, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Louis Henyey, James E. Miller, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Stanley Owen Morgan, B. Stars, Albert Edward Whitford; American Astronomical Society, Mount Wilson Observatory, Sky and Telescope, University of Wisconsin, and Yerkes Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 11 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80523833 View

Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955. Robert Williams Wood papers, 1927-1942.

Title: Robert Williams Wood papers, 1927-1942.

Collection of physicist, Robert Williams Wood, contains a small amount of correspondence, printed biographical material, and copies of reports and proceedings from scientific societies. Of interest are photographs of gratings and of the interaction of shock waves.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft. (1 document box)

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Kron, Gerald Edward, 1913-. Oral history interview with Gerald Edward Kron, 1978 May 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Gerald Edward Kron, 1978 May 20.

Family origins; early life in Milwaukee; interest in mechanical things; development of interest in astronomy; engineering at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee campus; interest in photoelectric photometry; graduate study at Madison and work with Charles Huffer and Joel Stebbins; Stebbins and Alfred E. Whitford's work; graduate study at Lick Observatory and University of California at Berkeley; photoelectric instrumentation; Lick in the pre-war years; World War II at MIT and Caltech; return to Lick and use of 1P21 photomultipliers; Walter Baade; origin of 120-inch telescope; Australia; Lick during the 1950s and Charles D. Shane's retirement; the electronic camera; contacts and association with Harold Johnson, Merle Walker and André Lallemand; move to Flagstaff and the Naval Observatory; recollections of Lick staff in 1930s; Henry N. Russell; Katherine Kron's work at Harvard University and astronomical interests. Also prominently mentioned are: Horace W. Babcock, Bart Jan Bok, William W. Campbell, Olin Eggen, George Herbig, Hamilton M. Jeffers, Harold Johnson, Alfred H. Joy, Armin O. Leuschner, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, J.H. Moore, G. Neugebauer, George Paddock, Roger Revelle, Franklin Roach, Robert Gordon Sproul, Robert Julius Trumpler, Olin Chaddock Wilson, Carl Wirtanen, William Hammond Wright, Arthur B. Wyse; Commonwealth Observatory, Inyokern Project, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory, National. Science Foundation (U.S.), Radcliffe College, Rocket Project, 120-inch Telescope, 200-inch Telescope, and University of California at Santa Cruz.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 85 p.

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King, Ivan R. Oral history interview with Ivan Robert King, 1977 July 18 and 20 July 1978.

Title: Oral history interview with Ivan Robert King, 1977 July 18 and 20 July 1978.

Emphasis on life and career through his graduate study at Harvard University. Discussions on faculty positions at University of Illinois and University of California Berkeley, scientific involvements, committee memberships; Immanuel Velikovsky and Yale symposium, 1977; recent questions on cosmology, Halton C. Arp's work, populations, etc. Major sections on his early life in Far Rockaway, N.Y. and schooling at Woodmere Academy; family background and interests; undergraduate study at Hamilton College, 1943-1946, development of astronomy interest; graduate study at Harvard, 1946-1952, research and scientific interests; work at Boyden station, photometer equipment; work for Defense Department, 1954-1956; computer work. Also prominently mentioned are: James G. Baker, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Bob Danielson, Pierre Demarque, Armin Deutsch, Frank Kelley Edmondson, Charles Federer, Franzblau, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Sergei Gaposchkin, Leo Goldberg, Arnold Guess, Anne Franzblau King, Myram King, Al Linnell, R.D. McClure, Jerry McCue, A.J. Meadows, Donald Howard Menzel, Bernard Oliver, Paraskevopolous, Martin J. Rees, Nancy Grace Roman, Paul Routly, Martin Ryle, Carl Sagan, Allan Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild, Harlow Shapley, Swenson, George W., Jr., Gart Westerhout, Stan Wyatt, Ken Yoss; Boyden Observatory, International Business Machines Corporation 7094 computer, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Smithsonian. Astrophysical Observatory, Sputnik (Spacecraft), United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois, Woodmere Academy, and Yale Conference on Cosmology 1977.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 69 p.

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Johnson, Hugh M. Papers, 1946-1999.

Title: Papers, 1946-1999.

The collection is centered on Johnson's time at Lockheed Space & Missile Company (1963-1986), but there is also material pertaining to his work before and after this period. The bulk of the research is on x-ray astronomy, but there is also material on Johnson's other research interests (x-ray astronomy, nebulae, galaxies, galactic structure, and interstellar matter). The collection is comprised mainly of correspondence, with lesser amounts of notes, newspaper clippings, and notebooks. The correspondence is both personal and professional. The correspondents include: Helmet A. Abt, Lawrence H. Aller, Frank M. Bateson, Bart J. Bok, Riccardo Giacconi, David S. Heeschen, George Herbig, William Hiltner, W.E. Howard III, Helen Hogg, Willem Luyten, N.U. Mayall, Donald Osterbrock, Stuart Pottasch, Arcadio Poveda, Frederick D. Seward, Lindsey Smith, Theodore Snow, Bruce Stephenson, Polydore Swings, Yervant Terzian, and Gart Westerhout. Some correspondence related to specific research subjects, observatories, meetings and programs is accompanied by research notes and photographs. The collection also contains notebooks from courses at the University of Chicago (taught by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Gerard Peter Kuiper, and Bengt Stromgren), the 1964 Hamburg IAU meeting, Yerkes Observatory Colloquia, and an NSF conference for teachers of astronomy at Berkeley in 1954.

ArchivalResource: 4.25 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154303330 View