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George Field - Session I
Richard Hirsh
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Career of George B. Field, theoretical astrophysicist and administrator of astronomical research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). Discussions of education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton and Harvard Universities, interest in cosmological problems; possible detection of hot intergalactic matter in 1964; colleagues at University of California at Berkeley; views on popularizing science; reactions to Sputnik launch in 1957; funding of research from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); views on the manned space program; effects of Vietnam War on NASA and astronomical research; involvement with the Space Telescope; views of the Space Shuttle; extensive committee work for NASA; astronomical research under NASA; work at SAO; new programs at SAO, such as x-ray astronomy and the Multiple Mirror Telescope; service on the Jesse Greenstein and Allan Bromley survey committees of astronomy and physics; and his view of the universe. Also prominently mentioned are: Kinsey Anderson, Stuart C. Bowyer, Jim Bradley, Tony Calio, Riccardo Giacconi, Thomas Gold, Leo Goldberg, John Hagen, Noel Hinners, Fred Hoyle, Frank Martin, John Earl Naugle, Al Opp, Edward Mills Purcell, Martin Schwarzschild, Dennis William Sciama, Henry Smith, Sylvia Favior Smith, Lyman Spitzer, George Steiner, Frank Sulloway, Pat Thaddeus, James Van Allen, Fred Whipple; American Science and Engineering, Inc., Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Congregational Church, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard University Society of Junior Fellows, High Energy Astronomy Observatory, Lick Observatory, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Astronomy Survey Committee, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Greenstein Committee, National Science Foundation (U.S.), New York Times, Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, Princeton University Matterhorn Project, Project Apollo, Skylab, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Multiple Mirror Telescope, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Space Shuttle, United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, United States Office of Management and Budget, United States Office of Naval Research, University of California at Berkeley, and Viking (Rocket).
George Field - Session II
Leon Fisher and Robert Varney
Gary Cameron
Gaseous Electronics Conference
In this interview Leon Fisher and Robert Varney discuss topics such as: Leonard Loeb; Willliam Allis; Sandy Brown; New York University; Wayne Nottingham; Julius Molnar; Phillip Morse; people from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Bell Laboratories; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Norris Bradbury; Dan Alpert; Gerhard Weissler; Lockheed Corporation; John A. Hornbeck; Ben Bederson; Homer Hagstrum; microwaves; radar development; T. D. Lee; Alfred Von Engel; Army Research Office; Office of Naval Research; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; ionized gases; Ted Holstein; cosmic rays; neutrons; Lester Germer; Ronald Geballe; gas discharges; American Physical Society; Karl Darrow; William Shockley.
William Fowler - Session I
Charles Weiner
Early education and career; graduate training at Caltech, with C.C. Lauritsen's group; collaboration at the Kellogg Lab and structure of Caltech physics department after 1939, Relationships with Oppenheimer and Lauritsen. Fowler's and Caltech's war work, Lauritsen's role in setting up Office of Naval Research for federally funded post-war research.
William Fowler - Session II
William Fowler - Session III
Post-war career at Caltech, federal funding for research, relationships among Caltech, Jet Propulsion Lab and Office of Naval Research. Work through 1950 in nuclear physics, astrophysics, element synthesis in stars, influence of Bethe, Greenstein; Bowen/Lauritsen seminars, astronomical observations. Fellowship to Cambridge (1954-55), beginning of collaboration with Hoyle and Burbidges; return to Caltech, further work on stellar element synthesis with Burbidges, personalities of G. Burbidge and Hoyle; contemporary views on cosmology.
S. Chandrasekhar - Session I
Spencer Weart
A thorough, reflective survey of the life and work of this theoretical astrophysicist. Early life and education in India, 1910-1930, and experiences at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 1930-1937, with comments on Edward A. Milne and Arthur S. Eddington; debate with the latter over collapse of white dwarf stars. Move to U.S. in 1937, with comments on the situation at Harvard and Princeton Universities since the 1930s, and especially on Henry N. Russell, John Von Neumann, and Martin Schwarzschild. Social context at University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory since 1937, with remarks on Gerard Kuiper, Otto Struve, Bengt Strömgren, etc. Work as teacher there, and as editor of Astrophysical Journal from 1951 until it was given to the American Astronomical Society in 1971. Scientific work resulting in Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (1939) and publications on stochastic processes in galaxy and in general, radiative transfer, interstellar polarization, hydrodynamics and hydromagnetics (including experimental checks). Recent work on general relativity and Kerr metric; comments on cosmology. General remarks on the social structure of astronomy and its cultural role. Extended discussion of his way of functioning as a theorist. Also prominently mentioned are: Hans Albrecht Bethe, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Enrico Fermi, Ralph Howard Fowler, George Gamow, Robert Hutchins, James Jeans, Alfred H. Joy, William Wilson Morgan, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Sir Chandrasekhar Vankata Raman, Ernest Rutherford, Harlow Shapley, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, Lyman Spitzer, Eugene Paul Wigner; Aberdeen Proving Ground, American Astronomical Society, Presidency College (Madras), United States Office of Naval Research, and United States Proving Ground at Aberdeen MD Ballistics Research Laboratory.
S. Chandrasekhar - Session II
S. Chandrasekhar - Session III
Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Edward Creutz - Session I
Stuart "Bill" Leslie
Creutz's home, Rancho Santa Fe, New Mexico
In this interview, Edward Creutz discusses topics such as: his family background; Gregory Breit; doing his postgraduate work at the University of Wisconsin on nuclear physics; Ray Herb; Julian Mack; Fred de Hoffmann; Eugene Wigner; going to Princeton as a research assistant working on the small cyclotron; Carnegie Institute of Technology; Frederick Seitz; Office of Naval Research (ONR); Urner Liddel; Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); helping to build the first commercial nuclear reactor; working in the metallurgical lab at the University of Chicago working on the metallurgy of uranium; General Dynamics and General Atomic; Los Alamos; Niels Bohr; Richard Courant; TRIGA (Training Research Isotopes General Atomic) reactors; Lothar Nordheim; Hans Bethe; Edward Teller; Richard Feynman; Ted Taylor; Marshall Rosenbluth; Doug Fouquet; High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR); Freeman Dyson; Don Kerst.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (8)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) (7)
Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.) (7)
Princeton University (7)
Project Apollo (U.S.) (7)
JASON Defense Advisory Group (6)
United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency (6)
Gamma-Ray Observatory (5)
Goddard Space Flight Center (5)
United States. Navy (5)
University of California, Berkeley (5)
University of Chicago (5)
VELA Program (U.S.) (5)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (5)
Bell Telephone Laboratories (4)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (4)
National Science Foundation (U.S.) (4)
Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) (3)
American Astronomical Society (3)
American Physical Society (3)
American Science and Engineering, Inc. (3)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (3)
Presidency College (Madras, India) (3)
Trinity College (University of Cambridge) (3)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (3)
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee (3)
Yerkes Observatory (3)
Avco-Everett Research Laboratory (2)
California Institute of Technology. W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory (2)
Carnegie-Mellon University (2)
General Atomic Company (2)
General Dynamics Corporation (2)
Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft) (2)
Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory (2)
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (2)
Lick Observatory (2)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory (2)
Purdue University (2)
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden [University of Leiden] (2)
University of Wisconsin -- Madison (2)
(-) United States. Office of Naval Research (30)
Nuclear physics (6)
Atomic bomb (5)
Music -- Acoustics and physics (5)
Remote sensing (5)
Seismology (5)
Space sciences (5)
Theoretical physics (5)
Research grants (4)
Dwarf stars (3)
General relativity (Physics) (3)
High Energy Astronomy Observatories (3)
Hydrodynamics (3)
Interstellar matter (3)
Physical laboratories (3)
Stochastic processes (3)
Cyclotrons (2)
Lasers (2)
Masers (2)
Military research (2)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (2)
Nuclear reactors (2)
Orbiting astronomical observatories (2)
Physics -- Study and teaching (2)
Science and state (2)
Science consultants (2)
Sputnik satellites (2)
Viking rockets (2)
Arms control (1)
Atomic clocks (1)
Balloons in astronomy (1)
Diodes (1)
Magnetic resonance (1)
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