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American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Sources for the History of Modern Astrophysics Project. Responses to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Title: Responses to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Responses to a 1980 survey of eminent astronomers and astrophysicists selected by project advisors to the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Center for History of Physics. Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. File includes responses from: Arthur Adel, Howard Lucius Andrews, Ralph Belknap Baldwin, Emily Hughes Boyce, Clarence Higbee Cleminshaw, Gilbert Douglas, Edwin G. Ebbighausen, Richard Maury Emberson, Clinton Banker Ford, Louis Craig Green, Francis Joseph Heyden, Theodor Siegumfeldt Jacobsen, Herbert Jehle, Philip Childs Keenan, Zdenêk Kopal, Israel Monroe Levitt, Sarah Lee Lippincott, Willem Jacob Luyten, Freeman Devold Miller, Gerard Francis William Mulders, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Thornton Leigh Page, Daniel Magnes Popper, William A. Rense, Carol Anger Rieke, Philip Shaefer Riggs, Alice Marguerite Risley, Walter Orr Roberts, George Shortley, Albert Melvin Skellett, Thomas Richard Nelson, Lois Keener Thome, Clyde William Tombaugh, Nicholas Emory Wagman, Balfour Stanley Whitney, Raymond Hiram Wilson Jr., Edith J. Woodward, and Frances Woodworth Wright.

ArchivalResource: 38 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79107009 View

Heyden, Francis J. The quest for Jesuit astronomers, 1982.

Title: The quest for Jesuit astronomers, 1982.

Letter from Francis J. Heyden, S. J. listing Jesuit astronomers including those at Georgetown, 1930-1948.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter (7 pp.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80830892 View

National Air and Space Museum. Dept. of Space History. Space History Interview Project, (ca. 1985-1995).

Title: Space History Interview Project, (ca. 1985-1995).

This oral history project examines a variety of topics in the field of the space sciences, in the ladder part of the 20th century. Interviews include: Livingston Briddle, William Braum, Peter Boyce, William Bruck, Fred Cherry, Russell Colley, Werner Dahm, Konrad Dannenberg, A. J. Dressler, Charles Donlan, Margaret Russell Edmondson, Bruce Ferguson, Walter Haeussermann, Karl Heimberg, Helmut Hoelzer, Arlo Landolt, Douglas Lord, Fritz Mueller, Herman Oberth, Frank Peterson, Clark Price, Herbert Raabe, Ronald Radcliffe, Wilhelm Raithel, Eberhard Rees, Gerhard Reisig, Paul Routly, Arthur Rudolph, Chauncy Spencer, Bernhard Tessmann (with Karl Heimburg), Georg von Tiesenhausen, Walter Wiesman; Charles Worley, George Gianopolis, Francis Heyden, J. Kohl, William Pickering, Evan Richards, Vera Cooper Rubin, James Webb, E. A. Whittaker, and Lloyd Zumwalt.

ArchivalResource: Interviews with 42 individuals.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83659688 View

History of physics manuscript biography collection D-H, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Title: History of physics manuscript biography collection D-H, 1901-1989, [ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk)

Included are typescript autobiographical or biographical essays about physicists, solicited since 1960 by the American Institute of Physics, and responses to biographical questionnaires sent to physicists working chiefly in the following areas: nuclear physics, astronomy and astrophysics, laser science, and geophysics. Other biographical and autobiographical writings take the form of letters, eulogies, travel diaries, curriculum vitae, and bibliographies. All of these document the lives and scientific careers of physicists born roughly between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among those represented: Sperry Eugene Darden, P. J. W. Debye, Arthur Louis Day, Lee De Forest, Russell Dewaard, Robert H. Dicke, Leroy Dickson, Nicholas Djeu, Gilbert Douglas, Harry Drickamer, Helen Dukas, Jesse Du Mond, Ora S. Duffendack, E. G. Ebbinghausen, Walter M. Elsasser, Richard M. Emberson, K.O. Emery, P. M. Endt, Richard W. Eppley, David Ernst, William Everitt, Viktor Evtuhov, Ugo Fano, Harrison Farnsworth, Hermon Waldo Farwell, Walter Faust, P. P. Feofilov, Walter Finnall Cross Ferguson, Carl E. Fichtel, R. W. Fink, Floyd A. Firestone, Irene Fischer, Harvey Fletcher, Paul A. Fleury, C. B. Ford, Kenneth W. Ford, Richard Gildart Fowler, Gerald Willis Fox, James Franck, Harry E. Franks, Joan Freeman, Naoshi Fukushima, Harold Q. Fuller, Fuson, Nelson, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Irvine Clifton Gardner, Richard L. Garwin, Andrew Gemant, Roger Gendrin, K. S. Gibson, George Glocker, Richard Glocker, Standord Goldman, Louis Craig Geeen, Lars Olai Grondahl, Rolf Werner Friedrich Gross, Frederick Warren Grover, Enrique Gaviola, Janet Brown Guernsey, Piet Cornelis Gugelot, Ross Gunn, Robert Hall, Louis P. Hammett, Wilhelm Hanle, Clinton Richards Hanna, Alfred Olaf Hanson, Marshall Cathcart Harrington, Stephen C. Harris, Bernhard Haurwitz, Hermann A. Haus, Sherwood Kimball Haynes, Werner Heisenberg, John Helmer, Ernest M. Henley, Paul Herget, Donald R. Herriott, Abraham Hertzberg, Karl F. Herzfeld, Victor Hess, Clarence Wilson Hewlett, Francis J. Heyden, Benjamin F. Howell, Su-Shu Huang, Patrick M. Hurley.

ArchivalResource: 63 linear ft. (ca. 550 items) in entire collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83623085 View

Heyden, Francis J. Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Title: Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

File consists of a questionnaire with brief, typed responses. Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

ArchivalResource: 10 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79617796 View