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SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context
Englishrevised2015-09-23machineCPF merge programMerge v2.0revised2016-08-10T18:27:39machineSNAC EAC-CPF ParserBulk ingest into SNAC Databaserevised2016-08-10T18:27:39humanSystem Service (system@localhost)created2024-03-28machineSNAC EAC-CPF SerializerSNAC Identity Constellation serialized to EAC-CPFpersonMünch Galindo, Guido.presumedactive 1977Astronomical observatoriesAstronomyAstronomyAstrophysicsRadiative transferStars
Astronomer (Astrophysics). Born 1921.
From the description of Oral history interview with Guido Münch, 1977 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83103575Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.California Institute of Technology.Carnegie Institution of Washington.Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-DeVorkin, David H., 1944-Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002.Hale Observatories.Kitt Peak National Observatory.Kuiper, Gerard Peter, 1905- ed.McDonald Observatory.Morgan, W. W. (William Wilson), 1906-1994.Mount Wilson Solar Observatory.National Science Foundation (U.S.)Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Yerkes Observatory.Münch Galindo, Guido. Oral history interview with Guido Münch, 1977 July 7.Münch Galindo, Guido.DeVorkin, David H., 1944-Oral history interview with Guido Münch, 1977 July 7.Transcript, 74 p.Early life in Mexico; Civil Engineering school, 1938, physics in Mexico; University of Mexico; study group; visitors from the United States, 1941; McDonald and Yerkes Observatories, 1942; work with Otto Struve; modern physics at University of Mexico; contact with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; Solomon Lefshetz's influence on mathematics in Mexico; Yerkes courses and general atmosphere after 1944; Struve's administration; work with Chandrasekhar; postdoctoral work in Mexico; return to Yerkes, staff reorganization; research at Yerkes, including radiative transfer, stellar envelopes, and Jupiter (Gerhard Herzberg); Mt. Wilson and work there; Caltech position; general research in 1950s and 1960s; limitations of present day research; teaching at Caltech; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); decision to accept position in Germany; Caltech and Carnegie Institute of Technology; role of Kitt Peak Observatory in Federal Funding for Astronomy; reflections on past work. Also prominently mentioned are: Camilo Arguello, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Robert Hutchins, Gerard Peter Kuiper, William Wilson Morgan, Luis Münch, Satero Prieto, Olin Chaddock Wilson; Hale Observatories, and Tonantzintla Observatory. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library