Oral history interview with Fritz Zwicky, 1971 May 17.

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Oral history interview with Fritz Zwicky, 1971 May 17.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83367845

In this 4.4-hour interview, Zwicky discusses his family, work at Caltech, work as an Aerojet consultant, and as an astronomer. He describes origins of California Institute of Technology's Schmidt telescope, 1946 artificial meteor tests using the V-2 at White Sands Proving Grounds, CIT presidents, and the non-acceptance of his ideas concerning stellar astronomy and physics.

Transcript: 41 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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