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Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1978 April 24.

by Strömgren, Bengt, 1908-

Transcript: 24 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 cited.

Owning Repository:

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

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4907.html (Transcript)

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Location of Original/Copy:

Available at Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics Libraries of Deposit.

Biography/History:

Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (1908-1987).

Scope of Material:

Research on stellar energy in the 1930s. Eddington-Milne models controversy encourages stellar structure work. Switch from classical astronomy to astrophysics during graduate studies (Niels Bohr); contact with physicists (George Gamow, Lev Landau). Background of his review articles. Discussion of Gamow's theory; comparison of Hans Bethe and Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker's work on nuclear reactions in stellar interiors; comments that energy production problem was solved by physicists.

Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes.

Interview conducted by Karl Hufbauer on 24 April 1978.

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.

Includes table of contents.

Hufbauer, Karl. interviewer.

Oral histories.

Sound recordings.

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