Oral history interview with Paul Herget, 1977 April 19 and 20.

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Oral history interview with Paul Herget, 1977 April 19 and 20.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82626055

Traces origins of family in Germany; early schooling in Cincinnati through graduation from the University; work at Cincinnati Observatory; Morrison Fellowship at Lick Observatory, 1935; work and study at University of California at Berkeley; contacts at Yerkes Observatory; return to the University of Cincinnati in 1936; work during World War II; removal of Rechen Institute from Germany to Cincinnati after World War II; Nautical Almanac Office; Minor Planet Center; research through 1950s; family and future.

Transcript, 96 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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