Oral history interview with James Edward Gunn, 1975 February 10.

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Oral history interview with James Edward Gunn, 1975 February 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81069559

Oral history interview covers early childhood, education 1938-1962; astronomy interest; graduate school at California Institute of Technology, impressions of professors; interest starts for cosmology. Social and political climate at Rice University; interests in quasi-stellar objects and astrophysics; distance relationship of quasi-stellar objects--galaxy associations. Importance of pulsars, pulsars as energy source. Non-professional life. Also prominently mentioned are: Halton Christian Arp, John Bahcall, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, Beverly Oke; Mount Wilson Observatory, and Princeton University.

Transcript: 22 pages.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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