Oral history interview with Charles M. Huffer, 1977 July 8.

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Oral history interview with Charles M. Huffer, 1977 July 8.

Early life in Indiana; Morse family; Albion College; Joel Stebbins at University of Illinois, ca. 1916; position at Lick Observatory Southern Station in Chile, ca. 1920. Graduate years at University of Illinois with Stebbins; early photo-cell observations; observing projects and color systems in 1930s; advances in photoelectric photometry from 1920s to World War II; teaching and research at University of Wisconsin; eclipsing binaries; students and associates; American Astronomical Society (AAS) activities in 1940s and 1950s. Also prominently mentioned are: George Ogden Abell, William W. Campbell, Arthur D. Code, Gerald Edward Kron, Jan Hendrik Oort, Donald Osterbrock, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, Albert Edward Whitford; Mount Wilson Observatory, and University of California, San Diego.

Transcript, 53 p.

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