Oral history interview with Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 1978 June 15.

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Oral history interview with Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 1978 June 15.

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Interview examines early life in Pennsylvannia; family background; schooling; college years at Swarthmore, 1916-1920; choice of major subjects; contact with J.A. Miller and choice of mathematics curriculum; move to Princeton and work with Henry Norris Russell; arrival at Princeton, 1920; recollections of Russell family; research on the position of the Moon and eclipsing binaries; work at Mount Wilson on the solar spectrum, 1925-1928; the origins of the Multiplet Table; return to Princeton; the organization of the Princeton Astronomy Department; Ph. D. thesis under A.O. Leuschner at University of California, Berkeley; early work on the solar spectrum, influence of A. Unsöld; line intensity work; collaboration with physicists; Russell's mode of research; work with William F. Meggers; molecular spectra; atomic spectra during World War II; move to National Bureau of Standards after World War II; Russell and R. Dugan; J.Q. Stewart; recollections of Russell and Princeton years; organization of work at NBS.

Transcript, 60 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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