Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

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Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.

File consists of: questionnaire with brief handwritten responses. 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 philosophy 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.

7 pp.

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Wright, Frances Woodworth

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Wright was born in 1897. From the description of Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84429776 ...