Oral history interview with Bert Shapiro, 1977 July 21.

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Oral history interview with Bert Shapiro, 1977 July 21.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83308743

A brief, impromptu talk with a film-maker about his science films for classroom and television use. Comments on his own interest in astronomy, on attitude of scientists toward publicity, and on public attitudes toward science.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 0.3 hrs.).Transcript: 12 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Shapiro, Bert,

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Weart, Spencer R., 1942-....

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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...