Oral History interview with Steve Murray and Gerry Austin, 1998 April 9.

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Oral History interview with Steve Murray and Gerry Austin, 1998 April 9.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305744

This joint interview with Steve Murray and Gerry Austin begins with a discussion of several government astronomy projects: the Uhuru Satellite Project; NASA's second High Enery Astronomy Observatory (HEAO-2/Einstein Observatory); the RoĢˆntgen Satellite (ROSAT); and the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), later renamed the Chandra X-Ray Center. Other topics and affiliations discussed include: spectrum analysis, galaxy clusters, and research developments in x-ray astronomy. This interview also contains several very descriptive sections in which Murray and Austin go into great detail to describe the design and assembly of x-ray detectors, and other x-ray equipment specifications.

Transcript: 48 pages.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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