Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1977 February 13.

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Oral history interview with Nicholas Mayall, 1977 February 13.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80710073

This focussed interview treats the social and scientific relationships among Mayall, Edwin Hubble, and Milton L. Humason. Topics include Mayall's early work on redshifts, the preservation of his papers, thoughts on theories of the universe, ground- and space-based astronomy, his work at Mt. Hamilton, his move to Kitt Peak National Observatory, and public relations in astronomy. Also prominently mentioned are: Walter Adams, Wilhelm Baade, Charles D. Shane; California Institute of Technology Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Lick Observatory, and Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories.

Transcript, 38 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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