Oral History interview with Gordon Allen Newkirk, 1983.

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Oral History interview with Gordon Allen Newkirk, 1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305297

Discusses his youth and early interest in astronomy; his education; undergraduate years at Harvard; interest in solar work; fellowship at Agassiz Station; his interest in rocket astronomy; Whipple and interest in rocket astronomy; graduate work at University of Michigan; solar space astronomy and V-2s; Leo Goldberg and infrared spectroscopy; Army career and assignment to the Signal Corps Engineering Labs; Coronagraph work; development of the sky photometer and Jack Evans; interest in balloon astronomy; Schwarzschild and Stratoscope; first flight in Minneapolis of Coronascope; improving the photometer; Tousey; light scattering problems.

Transcript: 62 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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