Oral history interview with Henry Lee Giclas, 1987 August 12.

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Oral history interview with Henry Lee Giclas, 1987 August 12.

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Born in Flagstaff, Arizona; spends professional life as astronomer in Flagstaff, 1931-1981. Early life in Flagstaff, the Lowell Observatory's place in it, and how he became a research assistant at Lowell, with particular emphasis on V.M. Slipher, the director from 1916-1955. Describes how the Observatory was transformed as a research institution after World War II, due to changing research topics and shifting patterns of patronage.

Transcript, 52 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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