Oral History interview with Herbert Friedman, 1983 June 7.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral History interview with Herbert Friedman, 1983 June 7.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305605

This interview covers selected aspects of Friedman's career at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). It traces the development of upper air research at NRL through the International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1957-1958), and then outlines subsequent attempts at international coorperation in geophysical research. The latter discussion serves as the basis to explore the role of "big" science, and its relationship to individual and "little" science.

Transcript: 20 pages.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6862513

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Harwit, Martin, 1931-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rn39hs (person)

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...

Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m94431 (corporateBody)

Friedman, Herbert, 1916-2000

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6st7rqd (person)

Herbert Friedman received his Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1940, and began working at the Naval Research Lab a year later. After two years of using X-ray radiation to detect manufacturing flaws, he was appointed head of the Electron Optics (1943-1958) branch of the Rocketry Division. In 1958 Friedman took over the Space Science Division until his retirement. From the description of Oral History interview with Herbert Friedman, 1983 June 7. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...