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		Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1902-1982.

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		Astronomy.
		Astronomy -- Societies, etc.
		Astrophysics -- History
		Loran -- Tables.
		Navigation -- Tables.
		Radar.
		Stars, Variable.
		Women in science -- Attitudes.
		Women scientists.
		World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
		American Association of Variable Star Observers.
		Barnard College -- Students.
		Connecticut College for Women, New London.
		Hale Observatories.
		Harvard University.
		Radcliffe College.
		Astronomy -- Study and teaching.
		Maria Mitchell Observatory (Nantucket, Mass.)
		Tonantzintla Observatory.
		Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973.
		Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-
		Hogg, Helen (Battles) Sawyer, 1905-1993.
		Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953.
		Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
		Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
		Bok, Bart Jan, 1906-
		Maury, Antonia Caetana De Paiva Pereira, 1866-1952.
		Watson, Fletcher G. (Fletcher Guard)
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Oral history interview with Henrietta Hill Swope, 1977 August 3.

by Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1902-1982.

Transcript: 52 pages, preliminary transcript.

Audio recording: 2 cassettes, 1.5 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

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Location of Original/Copy:

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

Scope of Material:

Family history. Margaret Harwood's lectures at Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket; B.A. from Barnard College, 1925; work with Harlow Shapley at Harvard University, 1926; funding of astronomy projects and Shapley's other interests in phenomena of nature. M.A. from Radcliffe, 1928. Other female astronomers: Helen Hogg, Antonia Maury, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin; marriage of the Gaposchkins. Her paper at dedication of Tonantzintla Observatory. Work on LORAN navigation tables with Fletcher Watson during World War II; position at Barnard and Columbia; lecturer at Connecticut College for Women. Work as Walter Baade's assistant at Hale Observatory, Baade's work style and influence; Ira S. Bowen, Edwin P. Hubble, disputes among Shapley, Hubble and Baade. History of Swope's work on variable stars, direct observation in Australia with Bart Bok, 1965; work with Margaret Mayall in American Association of Variable Star Observers. History of technique and changes in astronomy. History of attitudes towards women in astronomy; view of her own role and work in astronomy.

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

Inteview conducted by David DeVorkin on 3 August 1977.

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., 2004. 2 reels. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.

DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.

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