Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

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Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

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Questionnaire with brief, typed responses. Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

10 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Miller, Freeman D. (Freeman Devold), 1909-

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Professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan. From the description of Freeman D. Miller papers, ca. 1946-1995. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80286321 Freeman Devold Miller (1909-2000) received his S.B. from Harvard in 1930, his A.M. in 1932, and his Ph. D. in 1934. He became a professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan. From the description of Astronomy course notes, 1928-1931. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77066450 ...