AIP International Catalog of Sources

Archives Keyword

Archival Finding Aids

History Center Home

> You're searching: AIP Niels Bohr Library

Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzchild, 1977 September 27.

by Schwarzschild, Martin

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 1.0 hrs.), 1 session.

Preliminary transcript.

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

http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4869.html (Transcript)

Country of Repository:

Biography/History:

Martin Schwarzschild, 1912-1997. An American astronomer who was Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University from 1951 to 1979.

Scope of Material:

Discussion of Edwin Hubble in his later years; Hubble's accomplishments and his wish to redo the deep count of galaxies on the 200-inch telescope. Schwarzschild's relationship with Harlow Shapley and other astronomers (Walter Baade, Richard Tolman); work habits; Milton Humason. Thoughts on modern cosmology (astrophysics), quasar studies, the age of the universe (and erroneous estimates), the Big Bang, and an open versus a closed universe.

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

Interview conducted by Bert Shapiro on 27 September 1977.

10" reel. Bethesda, Md. Cutting Corp., 2003. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.

Shapiro, Bert interviewer.

Oral histories.

Sound recordings.

Occupation Term(s):

Astronomers -- Interviews.

Horizon Information Portal 3.05

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2004 Dynix All rights reserved.

AIP International Catalog of Sources