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American Physical Society. Meeting (1987 : Arlington, Va.). Joint symposium of the Division of Astrophysics and the Forum for History of Physics [sound recording] / 1987 April 21 & 22.

Title: Joint symposium of the Division of Astrophysics and the Forum for History of Physics [sound recording] / 1987 April 21 & 22.

Talks given at two of the sessions of the joint symposium of the American Physical Society Division of Astrophysics and Forum for History of Physics. Speakers at the first session entitled "Stellar Structure and the Origin of Steller Energy" were: Hans Bethe, Karl Hafbauer, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Edwin Salpeter, Raymond Davis, Lawrence Badash. Speakers at the second session entitled "Stellar Composition, Birth of the Universe, Origin of the Elements" were: David DeVorkin, Robert Smith, Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman, William Fowler, and Robert Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 6 sound cassettes (6 hrs.) : analog, 2 track, mono.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78036778 View

Alpher, Ralph. Oral history interview with Ralph Alpher and a joint interview with Robert Herman, 1983 August 11 and 12.

Title: Oral history interview with Ralph Alpher and a joint interview with Robert Herman, 1983 August 11 and 12.

Ralph Asher Alpher (1921- ). Session two is a joint interview with Robert Herman. Family background and early education, work at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, studies at George Washington University, wartime employment and studies, work with Navy on detection of mines; graduate studies with George Gamow while working at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, early universe theory, first encounter and later work with Robert Herman, interaction with physics community. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and L. R. Henrich, neglect of Alpher and Herman work by astronomical community; General Electric projects: supersonic flow, re-entry physics, the Talaria project; the Penzias/Wilson observations; honors, marriage. Miscellaneous recollections about youth in Washington, D.C., service on scientific committees, public education efforts, work at General Electric. Meeting of Alpher and Herman, their collaboration, cosmological theory, work with George Gamow, Edward Teller, Hans Bethe, Edward Condon, cosmic background radiation, controversy with steady-state adherents and others; systematic neglect of their work, nucleosynthesis in stars, reactions to awards, discussions with Arno A. Penzias at the time of Nobel Prize award (with Robert W. Wilson), correspondence with S. Pasternack about P. James Peeble's cosmology papers, Alpher paper on neutrino and photon background calculation, James Follin, C. Hayashi, Steven Weinberg's presentation in his book The First Three Minutes; current cosmological efforts, A. Zee's papers on cosmology, views on the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, Fred Hoyle's recent writings. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Albert Einstein, Richard Phillips Feynman, Lawrence Randolph Hafstad, Robert Hofstadter, Huntington, and H. P. Robertson.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes, 2 sessions.Transcript: 138 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82797962 View

George Gamow Symposium (1996 : George Washington University, Washington, D.C.). The George Gamow Symposium [videorecording] / Produced by George Washington University Physics Dept. ; 1996 April 12.

Title: The George Gamow Symposium [videorecording] / Produced by George Washington University Physics Dept. ; 1996 April 12.

Symposium in honor of George Gamow and his work in astronomy, cosmology, nuclear physics, and the genetic code, which was held in celebration of the 175th anniversary of George Washington University in 1996. Speakers include: Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe, Robert Herman, Alex Rich, Vera Cooper Rubin, Roger Stuewer, Robert Wilson. The last tape includes tributes and reminiscences about Gamow by the participants who knew and worked with him.

ArchivalResource: 4 videocassettes (350 min.) : sd., col ; 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306339 View

Alpher, Ralph. Remembrance of things past : some recollections of the development of the big bang model.

Title: Remembrance of things past : some recollections of the development of the big bang model.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305394 View

George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers, 1915-1975, (bulk 1950-1975)

Title: George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975)

George Gamow, physicist, astronomer, and author. Barbara Gamow, editor and translator. Correspondence, drafts of speeches, articles, and books, and other papers relating principally to George Gamow's career as an astronomer, physicist and popularizer of science and to Barbara Gamow's personal and literary associations.

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items; 30 containers plus 1 oversize; 12.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010191 View

Stanford University Press archival book copies, 1900-2012

Title: Stanford University Press archival book copies 1900-2012

The collection consists of archival copies of books published by Stanford University Press.

ArchivalResource: 352.0 Linear feet; (451 boxes)

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Wilkinson, David T. Oral history interview with David Todd Wilkinson, 1984 September 27.

Title: Oral history interview with David Todd Wilkinson, 1984 September 27.

Family background and early education; undergraduate studies in engineering at University of Michigan, faculty who influenced him; doctoral thesis at University of Michigan with Richard Crane on the g-2 experiment. Postdoctoral instructor; decision to work with Robert Dicke on gravitation at Princeton; funding in the Princeton Department, faculty, the ongoing NSF grant for Gravity, Relativity and Cosmology research. The lunar ranging experiment; assembling the team, background observations with balloons and COBE, construction for the 1969 Apollo flight. Studies in black-body radiation generated by Dicke, 1964; Wilkinson joins project with Peter Roll and James Peebles; building microwave apparatus, need for helium load, mapping the horn and measuring insertion loss. Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias at Bell Laboratories publish background radiation papers ahead of Dicke's team, other researchers on the topic: Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman, James Follin, George Gamow, Joseph Weber. The American Physical Society (APS) meeting in 1966, measurements from Dicke's group confirms Penzias/Wilson support of big bang theory. Further discussion on lunar ranging, measuring gravitation, the Nordvedt effect, optical measurements with Roger Dube and Bill Wickes, Steve Boughn and Peter Saulson on infrared background measurements. Paper with Mark Davis (1974). Formation of young galaxies, ongoing DIRBE (Diffuse Infrared Background Explorer) on COBE (Cosmic Background Exteriment) designed to measure background radiation over wide spectral range. CO measurements at high galactic latitude looking for dust clouds. CCD photometry by Ed Loh, find scale anistropy on NRAO maser with Juan Uson, large scale anistropy measurements. Discovery of dipole anistropy by Paul Henry and later confirmations, disconfirmation of quadropole effect. Plans for future work: g-2 experiments, measuring g and creating new infrared detector, search for low mass stars. Effects of being a physicist on his family life, hobbies, upcoming second marriage.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 75 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81993815 View

Brush, Stephen G. Correspondence with Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman regarding the history of the Big Bang cosmology and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, 1991-1995.

Title: Correspondence with Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman regarding the history of the Big Bang cosmology and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, 1991-1995.

Correspondence between Brush and Alpher and Herman in connection with Brush's articles on the history of Big Bang cosmology and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background, published in Scientific American and Perspectives on Science. Much of the correspondence relates to George Gamow's Big Bang model and Alpher and Herman's work on cosmic background radiation.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (32 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77849723 View

Arno A. Penzias Papers, 1931-2006, (bulk 1963-1998)

Title: Arno A. Penzias Papers 1931-2006 (bulk 1963-1998)

Scientist, corporate executive, and author. Correspondence, drafts of books, articles, and speeches, interviews, scientific articles, photographs, topical files, printed matter, electronic files, and miscellaneous material.

ArchivalResource: 9,500 items; 27 containers plus 2 oversize, 1 artifact and electronic files; 10.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011223 View