Records, 1977-1981.

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Records, 1977-1981.

Records include correspondence with libraries, observatories, and individuals relating to the microfilming and preservation of records and personal papers. Also included are inventories (some preliminary and others completed), and lists of collections surveyed and/or filmed. Information gathered on people interviewed is in the Library's oral history working files.

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American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Sources for the History of Modern Astrophysics Project.

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From 1976 through 1980 the Center conducted a project to document the history of modern astronomy and astrophysics, conducting some 400 hours of oral history interviews, microfilming the papers of a number of astronomers, and helping observatories to preserve their records. The oral histories and microfilms are now a part of the Niels Bohr Library's collections. The project was led by Spencer R. Weart with David DeVorkin. From the description of Records, 1977-1981. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics)

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This oral history project was undertaken by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, beginning in about 1976. The American Philosophical Society Library is a designated repository for the archive, which includes photocopies of typed manuscripts of the interviews, and microfilm and microfiche of certain manuscript collections of astrophysicists. These include the papers of Robert D'E Atkinson, Seth Chandler, Theodore Dunham [The American Philosophical Society has re...