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    		• Babcock, Horace W.
     
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    		• Astronomical instruments.
     
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    		• Astrophysics -- History
     
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    		• Cosmology.
     
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    		• Magnetic stars.
     
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    		• Magnetism.
     
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    		• Sun -- Loop prominences -- Magnetic fields.
     
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    		• Telescopes.
     
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    		• World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies.
     
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    		• Inyokern Project.
     
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    		• Schmidt telescope.
     
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    		• Telescope, 48-inch Schmidt.
     
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    		• Telescope, 100-inch.
     
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    		• Telescope, 120-inch.
     
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    		• Telescope, 200-inch.
     
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    		• Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
     
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    		• California Institute of Technology
     
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    		• Carnegie Institution of Washington.
     
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    		• Eastman Kodak Company.
     
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    		• Ford Foundation.
     
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    		• Hale Observatories.
     
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    		• Kitt Peak National Observatory.
     
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    		• Lick Observatory.
     
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    		• Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
     
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    		• McDonald Observatory.
     
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    		• National Science Foundation (U.S.)
     
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    		• Palomar Observatory.
     
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    		• University of California, Berkeley.
     
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    		• Yerkes Observatory.
     
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    		• Bausch & Lomb.
     
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    		• Hale Solar Laboratory.
     
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    		• Las Campanas Observatory (Chile)
     
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    		• Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956.
     
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    		• Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-
     
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    		• Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
     
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    		• Babcock, Harold D. (Harold Delos), 1882-1968.
     
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    		• Babcock, Horace W.
     
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    		• Bowen, Ira Sprague.
     
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    		• Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974.
     
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    		• Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995-
     
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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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    		• Mayall, N. U. (Nicholas Ulrich), 1906-
     
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    		• Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
     
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    		• Townes, Charles H.
     
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    		• Abelson, Philip Hauge.
     
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    		• Ackerman, Ed
     
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    		• Babcock, Harold Delos.
     
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    		• Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974.
     
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    		• Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-
     
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    		• Haskins, Caryl Parker, 1908-
     
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    		• Henyey, Louis George.
     
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    		• Leuschner, Armin Otto, b. 1868.
     
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    		• Mees, Charles Edward Kenneth.
     
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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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    		• Nichols, Edgar.
     
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    		• Prall, Elmer.
     
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    		• Rule, Bruce.
     
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    		• Seares, Frederick Hanley, 1873-
     
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    		• Smith, Sinclair.
     
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    		• Wood, H. A.
     
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    		• Zwicky, F. (Fritz), 1898-
     
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    		•  Oral history intervi...
     
     
     
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    Oral history interview with Horace W. Babcock, 1977, July 25.
    by Babcock, Horace W.
    Call Number: 
    OH
    Description: 
    Transcript: 97 pages.
    Audio recording: 6 cassettes, 5.75 hours.
    Use and Reproduction : 
    Oral History Interview may be read by any researcher with an approved access application on file, but copies and quotes may not be made without permission from the individual who was interviewed.
    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/1038.html (Transcript)
    Country of Repository: 
    USA
    Location of Original/Copy: 
    Available at Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics libraries of deposit.
    Biography/History: 
    Born 1912.
    Scope of Material: 
    This interview begins with a discussion of Babcock's childhood and youth around Mt. Wilson Observatory, with comments on father (Harold D. Babcock), Walter S. Adams, and Edwin P. Hubble. Also discussed in this interview: education at Caltech, University of California at Berkeley and Lick Observatory (1934-1939), and at Yerkes and MacDonald Observatories; work at MIT and Caltech on World War II hardware; astronomical instrumentation work, especially postwar Mt. Wilson-Palomar diffraction gratings; discovery of magnetic stars and studies of variations; work on solar magnetic fields (with father) and theory of solar cycle; comments on cosmology; discussion of Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories since the 1920s, especially under Ira Bowen's and Babcock's directorship (1963); internal administration; staff relations; dealings with Carnegie Institution and Caltech; discussion of Hale Observatories, 1930-1977; role of government funding in astronomy; guest investigators; allocation of telescope time; planning, funding, and construction of the Carnegie Southern Observatory at Las Campanas, 1963-1977.
    Also prominently mentioned are: Philip Abelson, Ed Ackerman, Carl David Anderson, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Vannevar Bush, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Crawford Greenewalt, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, George Ellery Hale, Caryl Haskins, Louis Henyey, Armin O. Leuschner, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, Paul Merrill, Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski, Edgar Nichols, Elmer Prall, Bruce Rule, Frederick H. Seares, Sinclair Smith, Otto Struve, Charles Hard Townes, George van Biesbroeck, H. A. Wood, Fritz Zwicky; Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astrophysical Journal, Bausch and Lomb Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Ford Foundation, Hale Observatories, Hale Solar Laboratory, Inyokern Project, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Las Campanas Observatory, Lick Observatory Bulletin, McDonald Observatory, Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, National Science Foundation (U.S.), 48-inch Schmidt Telescope, 100-inch Telescope, 120-inch Telescope, 200-inch Telescope, and University of California at Berkeley, CA.
    Notes: 
    Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes.
    Interview conducted by Spencer R. Weart, 25 July 1977.
    Interview conducted as part of the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project.
    Microfilmed, in part for the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics project. Copies available at the American Institute of Physics and SHMA libraries of deposit.
    10" reel. Bethesda, Md. Cutting Corp., 2000. 12 reels. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.
    Finding Aid: 
    Name index, table of contents and abstract are available with the interview transcript.
    Added Author: 
    Weart, Spencer R., 1942- interviewer.
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    Interviews.
    Oral histories.
    Transcripts.
    Sound recordings.
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