Oral history interview with Hermann Bondi, 1978 March 20.

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Oral history interview with Hermann Bondi, 1978 March 20.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79918217

Early life in Vienna, family and religion; atmosphere in Vienna in early 1930s; growth of interest in mathematical physics; anti-Semitism at University of Vienna; influence of history teacher and rejection of religion; influence of reading Arthur S. Eddington and James Jeans in the mid-1930s; further study in England and contact with Eddington; Trinity College, 1937-1940; study with Abraham S. Besicovich; collapse of plebiscite and family in Vienna; internment during World War II; graduate study with Harold Jeffreys: naval radar, 1942; associates during war and circle at University of Cambridge; development of radar research team with Thomas Gold and Fred Hoyle; developing astronomical interests, 1943; early research on accretion and evolution; cosmology; general relativity; contact with Freeman Dyson, James Lighthill and William H. McCrea; work in theoretical stellar structure; the problem of red giants; Hoyle's theory of stellar evolution; Hoyle-Lyttleton red giant models; growing interests in cosmology and discussion of Richard Chase Tolman and Edwin P. Hubble; the Steady State Cosmology; reactions to Steady State theory; gravitational theory and relativity circa 1955. Also prominently mentioned are: Christine Bondi, Abraham Frankel, George Cunliffe McVittie, Maurice H.L. Pryce, Otto Struve; and Trinity College (University of Cambridge).

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2.0 hr.), 1 session.Transcript: 40 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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