Oral history interview with Margaret J. Geller, 2002 October 1.

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Oral history interview with Margaret J. Geller, 2002 October 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83426586

A biographical interview with Geller. Begins with her childhood and initial experiences in undergraduate school at Berkeley. Emotional content of interview partway through resulted in shift to lengthy discussions of Geller's employment and legal problems with Harvard University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics over her appointment status. Theme of gender discrimination is strong and recurrent theme throughout the interview. More broadly is the theme of overall discrimination against women in the sciences. Some discussion of her collaboration with John Huchra on the CFA Redshift Survey that brought them great attention. The second part of the interview focuses more on Geller's scientific research, including her experience of graduate school at Princeton and subsequent research activities. Major topics include: Relationship with Jim Peebles and experiences at Princeton. Position at CFA and initial research on clusters of galaxies. CFA redshift survey and discovery of large scale structure of the universe. Public and professional reaction to work. Communicating science to the public. Effects of management at CFA. Major changes in astronomy and astrophysics.

Sound recording: 6 audio cassettes.Transcript: 106 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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