Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca. 1968.

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Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca. 1968.

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Questionnaire with brief, typed responses, in which Kopal refers often to his published memoir, Of Stars and Men: Reminiscences of an Astronomer (UK: Adam Hilger, 1986). Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosoophy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

10 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Kopal, Zdenek, 1914-

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Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993

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Astronomer. Taught at Harvard and MIT during and after Second World War. Head of Astronomy Department, University of Manchester, 1951-1981. Died 1993. From the description of Papers, ca. 1950s-1980s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83770241 Kopal died in 1993. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca. 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84429774 ...