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Astronomy: my way of life, as told to Andrew Hamilton, ca. 1960.

by Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973.

1 typescript (12 pp.).

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

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A reflection on the life and career of Ira Sprague Bowen, from the building of his first telescope as an adolescent to his retirement as director emeritus of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories in 1964. Bowen relates the influence on his life of Robert A. Millikan at the University of Chicago, and later at the California Institute of Technology; his life in Pasadena in the 1920s; his interest in spectroscopy, especially his studies of the spectra of nebulae; his part on the planning commission for the Hale Observatories and directorship of Mt. Wilson and Palomar, and the building of the 200-inch Hale telescope; and the "occupational hazards" of astronomy (cold and boredom), its utility, and its devotees.

Received from Richard Preston, 1986.

Forms part of the Manuscript Biography Collection of the American Institute of Physics' Niels Bohr Library.

Hamilton, Andrew.

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