Oral history interview with Walter Orr Roberts, 1983.

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Oral history interview with Walter Orr Roberts, 1983.

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Edited transcript of interview of Roberts. Reviews in detail his childhood experiences, work on the solar corona, solar spicules and prominences, orgins of geomagnetic disturbances, and the influence of variable solar activity on the earth's ionosphere and weather during his graduate education at Harvard and during his varied career as a researcher and administrator. Discussed are Roberts' participation in the establishment of the Climax Co., solar coronagraph station of Harvard College in July 1940, while a graduate student under Donald Menzel; his work as Director of the High Altitude Observatory, University of Colorado (1946-1961); and his tenure as Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (1960-1968).

Transcript (.25 lin. ft.)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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High Altitude Observatory of Harvard University and University of Colorado.

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Roberts, Walter Orr

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