Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

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Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

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Questionnaire with brief, handwritten responses. Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

10 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Keenan, Philip C. (Philip Childs), 1908-

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Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, Perkins Observatory, Ohio State University. From the description of Papers, 1946-1995, (bulk 1961-1995). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80932009 Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University. From the description of Philip C. Keenan papers, 1946-1995. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 40923706 ...