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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Strömgren, Bengt, 1908-     Subjects     Absorption spectra.     Astronomy -- Denmark.     Astrophysics     Astrophysics -- History     Comets -- Research.     Optics.     Radio astronomy.     Stars -- Classification.     Science -- Government policy -- United States.     Hubble constant.     European Southern Observatory.     Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.).     Kitt Peak National Observatory.     McDonald Observatory.     Palomar Observatory.     Niels Bohr institutet.     United States. Office of Naval Research.     University of California, Berkeley.     University of Chicago.     Yerkes Observatory.     Astronomy -- Study and teaching.     Brorfelde Geomagnetic Observatory.     Copenhagen University Observatory.     LaSilla Observtaory.     Københavns universitet.     Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956.     Bethe, Hans Albrecht, 1906-2005-     Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962.     Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995-     Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.     Gamow, George, 1904-1968.     Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-     Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938.     Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976.     Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967.     Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.     Kuiper, Gerard Peter, 1905-     Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968.     Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.     Morgan, W. W. (William Wilson), 1906-     Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.     Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.     Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.     Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007-     Biermann, Ludwig Franz Benedikt.     Bolton, Werner.     Dunham, Theodore, 1897-1984.     Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1944.     Gaunt.     Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977     Osbourne, Carl.     Reber, Grote, 1911-2002.     Reitz, Anders.     Rosseland, Svein.     Saha, Meghnad N.     Strömgren, Svante Elis, 1870-1947.     Sugihara, Thomas T.     Oral histories.     Interviews.     Transcripts.     Sound recordings.     Astronomers -- United States -- Foreign influences.     Astronomers -- Germany.     Denmark -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strömgren, Bengt, 1908-       by title:      Oral history intervi...         MARC Display

Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13. by Strömgren, Bengt, 1908- Call Number:  OH30231 Description:  Transcript: 68 pages. Audio recording: 3 cassettes, 4 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 Web Site:  http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/5070_1.html (Transcript) Country of Repository:  USA 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:  Family background and early interest in astronomy (Elis Strömgren). Undergraduate and graduate studies at University of Copenhagen, late 1920s; studies at Niels Bohr Institute, 1927-1929; thesis work in classical astronomy (orbits of comets). Development of photoelectric photometry and observations; early electronics, 1925; conflicting results in calculations of opacities (Arthur Stanley Eddington, Gaunt, Thomas T. Sugihara, Svein Rosseland, J. R. Oppenheimer, Meghnad N. Saha, R. H. Fowler, E. Arthur Milne, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin); assistant at University of Copenhagen, 1929; LaSilla Observatory. To University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory (Otto Struve), 1936-1939; starts work on formation of H #II regions, 1939; work at Mt. Wilson Observatory on absorption lines (Walter S. Adams, Theodore Dunham); estimates of ages of stars (Hans Bethe); Hubble Constant; comparison of astronomy in Europe and U.S.; European astronomers in U.S. (Gerard Kuiper, Polydore Swings, Carl Osbourne, Ejnar Hertzsprung); comments on history of Yerkes (Struve), teaching at Chicago; discussion of work on equation of ionization and calculations of opacities (Carl von Weizsäcker, Struve, S. Chandrasekhar); comments on W. W. Morgan. Discussion of work on stellar evolution, ionization of interstellar hydrogen (Struve). Effects of World War II on astronomy; influence of European astronomers on Americans; Ludwig Biermann; European Southern Observatory; views on radio-astronomy after World War II (Grote Reber). Astronomy in Denmark during war; stellar evolution (Anders Reitz, George Gamow); Strömgren becomes director of Copenhagen Observatory; developments in astrophysics during the war; optical studies. Nazi occupation of Niels Bohr Institute (Werner Heisenberg); contacts with German astronomers; development of Brorfelde Observatory. Becomes director of Yerkes and McDonald Observatory (Robert Hutchins), 1950-1957; American astronomy after World War II; relation of scientific community and government (Office of Naval Research); stellar classification work. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Oppenheimer), investigation of intermediate population II and extreme population II, 1957; establishment of Kitt Peak Observatory; return to Denmark, 1967. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Bohr, Werner Bolton, George Ellery Hale, Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Lev Landau, and Harlow Shapley. Notes:  Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes. Interview conducted by Lillian Hoddeson and George Baym on 6 and 13 May 1976. 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. 6 reels. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels. Finding Aid:  Includes table of contents. Added Author:  Hoddeson, Lillian, interviewer. Baym, Gordon, interviewer. AIP-ICOS Genre Term(s):  Oral histories. Interviews. Transcripts. Sound recordings. Occupation Term(s):  Astronomers -- United States -- Foreign influences. Astronomers -- Germany.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   International Catalog of Sources Oral History Interviews-NBL OH30231 In NBL Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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