Oral history interview with A. B. Numerova, 1988 February 4.

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Oral history interview with A. B. Numerova, 1988 February 4.

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This interview with A. B. Numerova covers the life and career of her father, the Soviet celestial mechanician B. V. Numerov (1891-1941). It concentrates on Numerov's later years, in particular on his arrest in 1936, his subsequent imprisonment, and his apparent execution in 1941. Also discussed at length are other astronomers who were arrested during the Great Purges.

Transcript, 76 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Numerov, B. (Boris), 1891-1941

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Numerov. Russian astronomer (astronomy, gravimetry, geophysics, geodesy). Corresponding member of the Academy of Science since 1929. Free-lance observer in the Pulkovo Observtory, 1913-1915; astronomer-observer in the Astronomical Observatory of the Leningrad State University, 1915-1925; director of the Calculation Institute and of the Gravimetric and Strometric Departments of the Astromono-Geodesical Institute, 1919-1924; director of the Astronomical Institute, 1924-1936; director of the Main G...

Numerova, A. B. (Anastasii︠a︡ Borisovna)

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Born in 1923. From the description of Oral history interview with A. B. Numerova, 1988 February 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81716641 ...

McCutcheon, Robert T.

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