Oral history interview with Vera C. Rubin, 1995 September 21 and May 9, 1996.

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Oral history interview with Vera C. Rubin, 1995 September 21 and May 9, 1996.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82445537

This interview is part of a small program to document the recent history of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). These interviews were used as background studies to help authors of chapters of the centennial history volume of the Society research and organize documentary materials. The volume to be published in 1999. This interview discusses Rubin's family background and years at Vassar; working at Naval Research Laboratory; influence of Richard Feynman on her studies at Cornell; teaching, observational work and spectroscopy at Georgetown; AAS meetings.

Sound recordings: 2 sessions.Transcript: 102 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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