Oral history interview with Alla Genrikhova Masevich, 1976 September 1.

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Oral history interview with Alla Genrikhova Masevich, 1976 September 1.

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Education and interest in astronomy (stimulated by Professor Perelmann) and graduate education in astrophysics and postdoctoral career at the University of Moscow through 1940s. Work on red giants, binaries, large planets, mass loss of stars, etc., with Vasilij Fesenkov, Dmitrij Ivanenko, Pavel Parenago and Andrei S'evernyi. Satellite tracking, women in astronomy, and scientific careers in the Soviet Union. Also prominently mentioned is: Moscow M. V. Lomonosov State University.

Transcript, 17 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Spencer R. Weart, born in 1942, received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph. D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for three years at CalTech as a Fellow of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, publishing papers in leading scientific journals. In 1971 Dr. Weart changed his field, enrolling as a graduate student in the History Department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1974 he took up his present pos...

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