Oral history interviews. Ground-based astronomy: Keck Observatory, 1996-1997.

Faber, S. M. (Sandra M.)

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Born 1944. Astronomer; University of California, Santa Cruz. From the description of Oral history interview with Sandra M. Faber, 2002 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84274303 Biography Astronomer Sandra Faber, a University Professor of astronomy and astrophysics, was elected to the American Philosophical Society on April 29. The learned society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, honors extraordinary accomplis...

Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics)

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This oral history project was undertaken by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, beginning in about 1976. The American Philosophical Society Library is a designated repository for the archive, which includes photocopies of typed manuscripts of the interviews, and microfilm and microfiche of certain manuscript collections of astrophysicists. These include the papers of Robert D'E Atkinson, Seth Chandler, Theodore Dunham [The American Philosophical Society has re...

Lawrence Berkeley laboratory

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Nelson, Jerry E.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

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Organization history UCSC Colleges Cowell College, founded 1965 Adlai E. Stevenson College, founded 1966 Crown College, founded 1967 Merrill College, founded 1968 Benjamin F. Porter College, founded in 1969 as "College Five" and formally dedicated as "Benjamin F. Porter College" in 1981. Kresge College, ...

Weart, Spencer R., 1942-....

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Spencer R. Weart, born in 1942, received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph. D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for three years at CalTech as a Fellow of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, publishing papers in leading scientific journals. In 1971 Dr. Weart changed his field, enrolling as a graduate student in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1974 he took up his present pos...

Warnow-Blewett, Joan

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Chompalov, Ivan

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W.M. Keck Observatory

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Shrum, Wesley, 1953-

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American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase III: Ground-Based Astronomy, Materials Science, Heavy-Ion and Nuclear Physics, Medical Physics, and Computer-Mediated Collaborations.

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A documentation research project to study the complex issues facing the historical documentation of multi-institutional collaborations in physics and allied sciences. Phase III focused on four disciplinary areas of ground-based astronomy, materials science, heavy-ion physics, and medical physics, and a category named computer-mediated collaborations. The Keck Observatory project is a collaboration of the California Institute of Technology and the University of California system and, secondarily,...

Genuth, Joel

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