Oral History interview with Martin Harwit and Henry Kondracki, 1983.

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Oral History interview with Martin Harwit and Henry Kondracki, 1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305589

This interview examines Martin Harwit's tenure as a physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), his time as a National Science Foundation fellow, and his working relationship with Henry Kondracki (an NRL engineer). The interview primarily is concerned with the roles of Harwit and Kondracki in the development of an infrared Aerobee rocket payload at Naval Research Laboratory.

Transcript: 25 pages.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Kondracki, Henry

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Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)

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Harwit, Martin, 1931-

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Astrophysicist. Martin Harwit served as professor of astronomy at Cornell University and as co-director of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program. In 1987 he was appointed director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. He received a Ph.D. in physics in 1960 from M.I.T. and taught at Cornell since 1962. Harwit's research interests have included observational astronomy, theoretical astrophysics, infrared astronomy, galaxy formation, and the history o...

DeVorkin, David H., 1944-....

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