Oral history interviews. Phase II: space science and geophysics, 1992-1994.

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Oral history interviews. Phase II: space science and geophysics, 1992-1994.

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The second phase of the study addressed the fields of space science (understood as the study of regions outside the Earth's atmosphere by scientific instruments launched on spacecraft) and geophysics (including oceanography). The study focused on 14 projects which were active between the late 1960s and the late 1980s. Six projects were chosen for the study of space science, eight for geophysics and oceanography. The choice was based on a large range of features: internationally and nationally organized projects; smaller and larger projects; in space science, projects managed by different space flight centers, and both astrophysical and planetary science projects; and in geophysics, seismological, climatological, and oceanographic projects. The AIP staff conducted 218 interviews in order to cover all types of people potentially vital to the documentation of scientific work. Along with the personal interviews, the project staff conducted numerous site visits to discuss archival issues and records policies and "special perspective interviews" with persons such as officers of scientific unions and discipline policy makers, with a broad overview of their fields. Project staff: Joan Warnow-Blewett, project director, Spencer Weart, associate project director, Joel Genuth, project historian, Janet Linde and Anthony Capitos, project archivists.

12 linear ft. (218 items).

American Institute of Physics

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Warnow-Blewett, Joan

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Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics)

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This oral history project was undertaken by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, beginning in about 1976. The American Philosophical Society Library is a designated repository for the archive, which includes photocopies of typed manuscripts of the interviews, and microfilm and microfiche of certain manuscript collections of astrophysicists. These include the papers of Robert D'E Atkinson, Seth Chandler, Theodore Dunham [The American Philosophical Society has re...

Genuth, Joel

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Capitos, Anthony,

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American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations.

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A documentation research project to study the complex issues facing the historical documentation of multi-institutional collaborations in physics and allied sciences. The project aimed to identify patterns of collaboration, records creation, and use; define the documentation problems; field test possible solutions to these problems; and recommend future actions to secure adequate documentation and facilitate future study. Phase I focused on collaborative research in high-energy physics (complete...

Linde, Janet,

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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...