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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Cowling, T. G. (Thomas George)     Subjects     Astronomy -- Great Britain.     Gases, Kinetic theory of.     Magnetohydrodynamics.     Mathematics.     Solar magnetic field.     Stars -- Structure.     World War, 1914-1918.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.     Imperial College of Science and Technology.     Royal Astronomical Society.     Royal Society (Great Britain)     University of Leeds.     University of Oxford.     University College of North Wales.     University College of Swansea.     Ambartsumian, V. A. (Viktor Amazaspovich).     Biermann, Ludwig, 1907-1986.     Cowling, T. G. (Thomas George)     Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.     Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-1991.     Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946.     Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.     Nicholson, John William, b. 1881.     Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961     Alfvén, Hannes, 1908-     Chapman, Sydney, 1888-1970.     Griffith, I. O.     Lindbald, Bertil.     Ruse, H. S.     S'evernyi, Andrei Borisovich.     Turner, Herbert Hall.     Oral histories.     Interviews.     Transcripts.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cowling, T. G. (Thomas George)       by title:      Oral history intervi...         MARC Display

Oral history interview with Thomas George Cowling, 1978 March 22. by Cowling, T. G. (Thomas George) Description:  Transcript: 45 pages. Audio recording: 3 cassettes, 3 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/4563.html (Transcript) Country of Repository:  USA Biography/History:  Born 1906. Scope of Material:  Early life in London during World War I; developing interests in mathematics; training at University of Oxford under John Nicholson, I. O. Griffith and Edward A. Milne; contact with Sydney Chapman and research on solar magnetic field and stellar structure; position at Imperial College with Chapman; comments on stellar structure studies of James Jeans, Edward Milne, and Arthur Eddington; work on Kinetic Theory of Gases and Magnetohydrodynamics and continued work in stellar structure; work during World War II and later contact with Hannes Alfvén; later positions and move to University of Leeds; growth and progress of astronomy in Britain. Also prominently mentioned are: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann, Walter M. Elsasser, Bertil Lindblad, Alla Genrikhova Massevitch, H. S. Ruse, Erwin Schrödinger, Andréi Borísovich Sevérnyi, H. H. Turner; Baptist Church, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Society (Great Britain), University College of North Wales, University College of Swansea, and University of Oxford. Notes:  Interview conducted as part of the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project. Interview conducted by David H. DeVorkin, 22 March 1978. 10" reel. Bethesda, Md. : Cutting Corp., 2003. Original recording remastered onto 3-10" reels and 2 cassettes. Finding Aid:  Includes name index and table of contents. Added Author:  DeVorkin, David H., 1944- Interviewer. AIP-ICOS Genre Term(s):  Oral histories. Interviews. Transcripts.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Status   International Catalog of Sources Oral History Interviews-NBL In NBL Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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