Oral history interview with Robert B. King, 1992 March 8.

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Oral history interview with Robert B. King, 1992 March 8.

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Discusses his childhood spent in and around the environment of Mount Wilson observatory with his father; his education; graduate school at Princeton working with Russell and others on spectroscopy; PhD in 1933; National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship at Mount Wilson; describes his research on line spectra; the split between spectroscopists and the "direct" program at Mount Wilson; MIT position as instructor in 1935; explains his absolute f-values research; hired back at Mount Wilson in 1938; comments on war effort research on rockets and fuses; comments on the location and conditions of his father's letters; recalls time spend with Russell over the years.

Sound recording: 2 cassette tapes.Transcript: 44 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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