Oral history interview with Rudolf Kippenhahn, 1978 June 18.

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Oral history interview with Rudolf Kippenhahn, 1978 June 18.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78113862

Brief discussion of early events in Kippenhahn's career: his first position under Ernst Zinner at Bamburg; contact with Ludwig Biermann at Universität Göttingen; early work with computers, particularly the impact of the numerical method invented by Louis Henyey at University of California, Berkeley, and early large-scale applications of electronic computers to astrophysics.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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