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    		• Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973.
     
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    		• Astronomy.
     
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    		• Astronomical observatories -- Administration.
     
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    		• Depressions -- 1929.
     
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    		• Radio astronomy.
     
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    		• Telescopes.
     
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    		• World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
     
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    		• Spectrum analysis.
     
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    		• Carnegie Institution of Washington.
     
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    		• California Institute of Technology
     
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    		• Lick Observatory.
     
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    		• Mount Wilson Observatory.
     
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    		• Oberlin College.
     
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    		• Palomar Observatory.
     
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    		• University of Chicago.
     
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    		• Astronomy -- Study and teaching.
     
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    		• Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956.
     
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    		• Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
     
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    		• Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974.
     
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    		• Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
     
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    		• Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
     
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    		• Gale, Henry Gordon, 1874-1942.
     
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    		• Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-
     
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    		• Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-
     
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    		• Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938.
     
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    		• Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953.
     
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    		• Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973.
     
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    		• Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
     
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    		• McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
     
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    		• Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
     
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    		• Oort, Jan Hendrik.
     
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    		• Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957.
     
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    		• Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.
     
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    		• Tolman, Richard Chace, 1881-1948.
     
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    		• Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982.
     
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    		• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
     
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    		• Babcock, Harold Delos.
     
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    		• Baum, William Alvin, 1924-
     
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    		• Bjerknes, Wilhelm.
     
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    		• Bowen, T.
     
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    		• Burbidge, Geoffrey R.
     
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    		• Burbidge, E. Margaret.
     
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    		• Carroll, J.
     
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    		• DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-
     
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    		• Dunken, Heinz.
     
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    		• Edlèn, Bengt.
     
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    		• Fowler, William A.
     
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    		• Hall, John L.
     
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    		• Hendrix, Don.
     
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    		• Joy, Alfred H., (Alfred Harrison), 1882-1973.
     
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    		• Mason, Max.
     
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    		• Merrill, Paul W. (Paul Willard), 1887-1961.
     
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    		• Minkowski, Rudolph Leo Bernhard, 1895-1976.
     
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    		• Münch, Guido, 1921-
     
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    		• Otis, R.
     
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    		• Strong, John, 1905-
     
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    Oral history interview with Ira Bowen, 1968 August 9 and 26 August 1969.
    by Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973.
    Description: 
    Transcript: 83 pages.
    Audio recording: 3 5 inch reels, 5.75 hours.
    Use and Reproduction : 
    Oral History Interview may be read and quoted by any researcher with an access application on file, and excerpts may be copied.
    Owning Repository: 
    American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
    Web Site: 
    http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4524_1.html (Transcript)
    Country of Repository: 
    USA
    Location of Original/Copy: 
    Microfilm available at University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Berekeley, CA.
    Scope of Material: 
    Early life and education; research on spectroscopy with Robert A. Millikan at University of Chicago and Caltech; early teaching career at Caltech; work on forbidden lines, 200-inch telescope project; visitors to Caltech during the 1930s include Albert Einstein and Arnold Sommerfeld; effects of the Depression and World War II on astronomy; postwar reorganization, staff and funding at Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories; Edwin P. Hubble's role at the observatory; educational aspects of the observatory program (professional and public); research groups and research interests; theorists and observationalists, Jesse Greenstein, Guido Münch, Jan Oort, radio astronomy; recollections and evaluations of own work after retirement. Also prominently mentioned are: Walter Sydney Adams, Harold Delos Babcock, William Alvin Baum, Wilhelm Bjerknes, T. Bowen, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, Margaret Burbidge, Vannevar Bush, J. Carroll, Lee Alvin DuBridge, Theodore Dunham Jr., Edlén, Robley Dunglison Evans, William Alfred Fowler, Henry Gordon Gale, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, George Ellery Hale, John L. Hall, Don Hendrix, Alfred H. Joy, Thomas Lauritsen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Max Mason, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Merriam, Paul Merrill, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, R. Otis, Henry Norris Russell, John Donovan Strong, Richard Chase Tolman, Merle Antony Tuve; Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
    Notes: 
    Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes.
    Interview conducted by Charles Weiner, 9 August 1968 and 26 August 1969.
    10" reel. 1993. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.
    Finding Aid: 
    Includes name index and table of contents.
    Added Author: 
    Weiner, Charles. interviewer.
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    Interviews.
    Transcripts.
    Sound recordings.
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