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		Moore, Charlotte Emma, 1898-

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		Astrophysics -- History
		Atomic spectra.
		Eclipsing binaries.
		Mathematics. -- Study and teaching.
		Molecular spectra.
		Moon Ephemerides.
		Spectrum, solar.
		Multiplet Table.
		Mount Wilson Solar Observatory.
		Princeton University. Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences.
		Swarthmore College.
		United States. National Bureau of Standards.
		University of California, Berkeley.
		Moore, Charlotte Emma, 1898-
		Meggers, William F. (William Frederick), 1888-1966.
		Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957.
		Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905-
		Dugan, Raymond Smith, 1878-1940.
		Leuschner, Armin Otto, b. 1868.
		Miller, John Anthony.
		Stewart, John Quincy, 1894-
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Oral history interview with Charlotte Moore, 1978 June 15.

by Moore, Charlotte Emma, 1898-

Transcript: 60 pages.

Audio recording: 3 cassettes, 2.5 hours.

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Oral History Interview may be read and quoted by any researcher with an access application on file, and excerpts may be copied.

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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4784.html (Transcript)

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Biography/History:

Astronomer and astrophysicist. Upon completing her B.A. in mathematics at Swarthmore College in 1920 Charlotte Moore took a job as assistant to Henry Norris Russell at Princeton University. There she audited courses and became coauthor of papers on binary stars and an influential book on the masses of stars. In the late 1920s she worked at the Mt. Wilson Observatory with Charles E. St. John and Harold D. Babcock on the solar spectrum. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley using Mt. Wilson plates to analyze atomic lines in the sunspot spectrum. From 1945 until the end of her life she worked on spectra at the National Bureau of Standards and the Naval Research Laboratory. She compiled, organized, and analyzed laboratory data and published definitive books on the solar spectrum and spectral line multiplets. These books became the essential resource for spectroscopists. In her later years she extended the tables into the ultraviolet with data from rocket-borne instruments and laboratory workDied 1990.

Scope of Material:

Interview examines early life in Pennsylvannia; family background; schooling; college years at Swarthmore, 1916-1920; choice of major subjects; contact with J. A. Miller and choice of mathematics curriculum; move to Princeton and work with Henry Norris Russell; arrival at Princeton, 1920; recollections of Russell family; research on the position of the Moon and eclipsing binaries; work at Mount Wilson on the solar spectrum, 1925-1928; the origins of the Multiplet Table; return to Princeton; the organization of the Princeton Astronomy Department; Ph.D. thesis under A. O. Leuschner at University of California, Berkeley; early work on the solar spectrum, influence of A. Unsöld; line intensity work; collaboration with physicists; Russell's mode of research; work with William F. Meggers; molecular spectra; atomic spectra during World War II; move to National Bureau of Standards after World War II; Russell and R. Dugan; J. Q. Stewart; recollections of Russell and Princeton years; organization of work at NBS.

Interview conducted by David DeVorkin, 15 June 1978.

Interview conducted as part of the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project.

Includes name index and table of contents.

DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.

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