Interviews conducted for book, THE RED LIMIT, 1974-1976.

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Interviews conducted for book, THE RED LIMIT, 1974-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306247

Consists of interviews with twenty-one physicists and astronomers concerning their work. Topics include astrophysics, cosmology, relativity, and in particular the origin, nature and fate of the universe. These interviews were conducted by Ferris for his book, THE RED LIMIT: THE SEARCH FOR THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE (1977). They are not transcribed. The longest interviews are with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Arno A. Penzias, Maarten Schmidt, and Robert W. Wilson. Other interview subjects are: Halton C. Arp, Geoffrey Burbidge, M. Carr, J. Goodette, R. Hargrave, Hal Klein, Gentry Lee, F. Low, J. Martin, T. Mutch, T. Owen, Leighton, David DeVorkin, Allan Sandage, G. Soffen, John Wheeler, and T. Young.

0.5 linear feet.25 sound cassettes : analog; 1/8 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Sandage, Allan

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Ferris, Timothy

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Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007

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Soffen, Gerald A.

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Burbidge, Geoffrey R.

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

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Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-....

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Penzias, Arno A.

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Mutch, Thomas A., 1931-

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