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    		• Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905-
     
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    		• Astrophysics
     
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    		• Hydrogen ions.
     
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    		• Microphotometer.
     
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    		• Quantum theory.
     
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    		• Radio astronomy.
     
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    		• Schrödinger equation.
     
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    		• Science -- History.
     
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    		• Spectrograph.
     
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    		• Spectrum analysis.
     
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    		• Spectrum, solar.
     
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    		• Stars -- Structure.
     
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    		• Stars -- Temperature.
     
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    		• Thermodynamic equilibrium.
     
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    		• World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
     
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    		• International Astronomical Union.
     
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    		• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften.
     
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    		• Mount Wilson Solar Observatory
     
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    		• Universität Hamburg.
     
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    		• Universität Kiel.
     
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    		• Universität München.
     
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    		• Universität Tübingen.
     
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    		• University of Cambridge.
     
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    		• Yerkes Observatory.
     
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    		• Kiel Observatory.
     
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    		• Padagogische Hochschule "Karl Liebknecht" Wissenschaftlich-Technisches Zentrum.
     
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    		• Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956.
     
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    		• Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
     
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    		• Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
     
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    		• Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-
     
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    		• Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
     
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    		• Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-
     
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    		• Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
     
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    		• Heitler, Walter, 1904-
     
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    		• Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.
     
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    		• Hoyle, Fred, Sir.
     
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    		• Mie, Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig, 1868-
     
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    		• Öpik, Ernst Julius, 1893-
     
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    		• Peierls, Rudolf Ernst, Sir, 1907-
     
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    		• Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
     
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    		• Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961
     
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    		• Schwarzschild, K. (Karl), 1873-1916.
     
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    		• Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
     
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    		• Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.
     
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    		• Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
     
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    		• Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978.
     
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    		• Brueck.
     
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    		• Emden, Jacob Robert.
     
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    		• Grotrian, Walter.
     
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    		• Hohl, Helmuth.
     
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    		• Milne, Edwin.
     
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    		• Pahlen, Emanuel J. von der.
     
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    		• Rosenberg, Hans.
     
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    		• Hulst, H. C. van de (Hendrik Christoffel), 1918-
     
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    		• Wildt, Rupert.
     
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    		• Wilkens, A.
     
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    Oral history interview with Albrecht Unsöld, 1978 June 6.
    by Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905-
    Call Number: 
    OH500
    Description: 
    Transcript: 27 pages.
    Audio recording: 2 cassettes, 2 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
    Country of Repository: 
    USA
    Location of Original/Copy: 
    Copies also available at Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics libraries of deposit.
    Scope of Material: 
    Family background; education at Tübingen University; thesis on the Schrödinger Theory at Universität München (1927), influence of Arnold Sommerfeld, Werner Heisenberg. Potsdam experiments inspired by Karl Schwarzschild, J. Robert Emden; Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium and curve of growth. Spent 1928 at Mt. Wilson. Return to Germany to teach physics during Depression; use of microphotometer, the Coude spectrograph; analysis of Tau Scorpii. Pre-war professorship at Yerkes Observatory with Otto Struve; line profile information, stellar composition. WW II return to Universität Kiel, star temperature detection, solar spectrum analysis, elements/energy production. Isolation and destruction of German physics, anti-German attitude. Remarks on history of science, views on contemporaries and astrophysical (radio) research; fate of correspondence. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, Brueck, Robert Hooke, Hans Rosenberg, Henry Norris Russell, Erwin Schrödinger, A. Wilkens; International Astronomical Union, Pädagogische Hochschule "Karl Liebknecht" Wissenschaftlich-Technisches Zentrum, Universität Hamburg, Universität Kiel, and Universität München.
    Notes: 
    Interview conducted by Owen Gingerich, 6 June 1978.
    Interview conducted as part of the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project.
    Finding Aid: 
    Includes name index and table of contents.
    Added Author: 
    Gingerich, Owen. interviewer.
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    Interviews.
    Sound recordings.
    Transcripts.
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