Oral history interview with Donald E. Osterbrock, 1982 January 21.

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Oral history interview with Donald E. Osterbrock, 1982 January 21.

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Focusses on work during his graduate student years at Yerkes Observatory with Stewart L. Sharpless under the supervision of William Morgan. Morgan's use of H II regions of spiral arms, the Greenstein-Henyey camera, AAS meeting; death of his father; other astronomers' spiral arms and methods; OB stars; doctoral thesis; improvements in infrared photography of galaxies. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Bart Jan Bok, Butler Burton, Arthur D. Code, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Louis Henyey, James E. Miller, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Stanley Owen Morgan, B. Stars, Albert Edward Whitford; American Astronomical Society, Mount Wilson Observatory, Sky and Telescope, University of Wisconsin, and Yerkes Observatory.

Transcript, 11 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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