Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

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Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

Letter to Spencer Weart, director of AIP Center for History of Physics, which includes brief reminiscences of Adel's early years at the University of Michigan with George Uhlenbeck; at Lowell Observatory with Gordon B. B. M. Sutherland; at Arizona State College as the--entire physics department; and a post-doctoral year at Johns Hopkins University with A. Herman Pfund and Robert W. Wood.

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