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, typed responses and four double-sided pages of addendum. The first addenda is entitled Impressions of Some Astronomers, in which Ebbighausen reminiscences about his years at Yerkes Observatory with Otto Struve, William W. Morgan, Philip Keenan, Gerard Kuiper, Bengt Stomgren, Gordon Wares, George Van Biesbroeck and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, from whom he took classes. There is a much shorter autobiographcal addenda called The Discovery of the large Proper Motion Star B.D.+5 1668 in which Willem J. Luyten also figures prominently. 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 extraterrrestrial intelligence.

19 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Morgan, William W.

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Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

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Astrophysicist. B.A., Presidency College, Madras University, 1930. Ph. D., Cambridge University, 1933; Sc. D., 1942. Research Associate, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, 1937. Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 1938; Associate Professor, 1942; Professor, 1944; Distinguished Service Professor, 1946; Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, 1952. Managing editor, Astrophysical Journal, 1952-1971. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983. From t...

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 ...

Luyten, Willem Jacob, 1899-1994

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Luyten died in 1994. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79918246 Willem J. Luyten was born on 7 March 1899 in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (now Java, Indonesia). He earned his B.A. in 1918 from the University of Amsterdam and his M.A. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1921 from the University of Leiden, Holland (now Leiden University, the Netherlands). Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Dr...

Ebbighausen, E. G. (Edwin George), 1911-

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Yerkes Observatory

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Yerkes Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, is a facility of the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The observatory opened in 1897 as the joint creation of three founders: William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago; Professor George E. Hale, the observatory's first director; and Charles T. Yerkes, a wealthy Chicago businessman who provided funds for the erection of the observatory building. Known as the home of the last of t...

Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973

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Struve, Otto, 1897-1963

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Astronomer (astrophysics of stars, spectroscopy, interstellar studies, origin of universe) and administrator. On the staff of Yerkes Observatory, 1921-1932, director, 1932-1950; editor, ASTROPHYSICS JOURNAL, 1932-1947; on the astrophysics faculty, department chair, and director, Leuschner Observatory, University of California, Berkeley, 1950-1959; and director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1959. From the description of Selected correspondence [microform], 1932-1945. (Unk...