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  • Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905-
     
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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.
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