Oral history interview with James Hansen, 2000 October 23 and November 27.

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Oral history interview with James Hansen, 2000 October 23 and November 27.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79973068

Topics include: his youth and education; work on his Ph.D. with Van Allen and Satoshi Matsushima; planetary science and his work on Venus; aerosols; the work of Chandrasekar, Carl Sagan and Jim Pollack, Jastrow, Charney; global worming;

Sound recording: 4 cassettes.Transcript: 63 pp. (2 sessions)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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