Interviews conducted for the television program, The Creation of the Universe, ca. 1982-1988.

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Interviews conducted for the television program, The Creation of the Universe, ca. 1982-1988.

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Transcripts of, or notes from, of twelve recorded interviews with physicists and astronomers conducted by Ferris for the television program, The Creation of The Universe, which was produced by Northstar Associates in 1988. Topics include astrophysics, cosmology, relativity, and symmetry. The interviewees include: Murray Gell-Mann, Howard Georgi and Sheldon Glashow, Heinz Pagels, Stephen Hawking, Leon Lederman, Carlo Rubbia (notes about interview; no transcript), Abdus Salam, Allan Sandage, Michael Turner, Simon Van Der Meer (notes on conversation), and John Wheeler. Includes correspondence regarding transfer of materials from author and Northstar Productions.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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