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    		• Blaauw, Adriaan.
     
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    		• Astronomy.
     
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    		• Galaxies -- Research.
     
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    		• Radio astronomy.
     
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    		• Stars -- Catalogs.
     
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    		• Stars -- Research.
     
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    		• World War, 1939-1945 -- Netherlands.
     
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    		• European Southern Observatory.
     
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    		• Harvard University.
     
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    		• Rijksuniversiteit te Gröningen.
     
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    		• Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.
     
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    		• Sterrewacht Leiden.
     
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    		• Universität Hamburg.
     
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    		• Yerkes Observatory.
     
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    		• Kapteyn Laboratory, Gröningen.
     
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    		• Leiden Observatory.
     
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    		• Ambartsumian, V. A. (Viktor Amazaspovich).
     
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    		• Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933.
     
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    		• Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
     
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    		• Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952.
     
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    		• Kuiper, Gerard Peter, 1905-
     
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    		• Minnaert, M. G. J. (Marcel Gilles Jozef), 1893-
     
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    		• Oort, Jan Hendrik.
     
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    		• Schmidt, Maarten.
     
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    		• Strömgren, Bengt, 1908-
     
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    		• Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905-
     
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    		• Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967.
     
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    		• Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
     
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    		• Hiltner, William Albert, 1914-1991.
     
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    		• Morgan, W. W. (William Wilson), 1906-
     
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    		• Pannekoek, Antoine.
     
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    		• Sitter, Willem de.
     
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    		• Rhijn, P. J. van (Pieter Johannes), b. 1886
     
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    		• Woltjer, J.
     
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    Oral history interview with Adriaan Blaauw, 1979 August 19.
    by Blaauw, Adriaan.
    Description: 
    Transcript: 89 pages.
    Audio recording: 6 cassettes, 6 hours.
    Use and Reproduction : 
    Oral History Interview may be read by any researcher with an approved access application on file, but copies and quotes may not be made without permission from the individual who was interviewed.
    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/5002.html (Transcript)
    Country of Repository: 
    USA
    Location of Original/Copy: 
    Available at Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics libraries of deposit.
    Scope of Material: 
    Early life and family in Amsterdam; childhood interest in astronomy and telescope-building; undergraduate at Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden (W. deSitter, J. Woltjer), works at Leiden Observatory; growing interest in galactic research (Ejnar Hertzsprung, Jan Oort); contact with others at Leiden (Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Kramers). Assistantship at Rijksuniversiteit te Gröningen, 1938; cooperative stellar catalog with Harvard University and Universität Hamburg. Life during the German Occupation, conditions in Leiden and Holland; the Resistance Movement; returns to Leiden, 1945. Begins work on thesis at end of war, continues Jacobus C. Kapteyn's interest in proper motion of helium star (Scorpio-Centaur association); compares Boss Catalog and FK Catalog for systematic errors (Oort). Discussion of postwar developments in time scale problem (Albrecht Unsöld, Victor Ambartsumian). To Yerkes Observatory, 1947; impressions of Yerkes and other American observatories: RR Lyrae variables (Otto Struve), 1947-1948; work on extension of cluster expansion (W. W. Morgan), 1952; work in Kenya on stellar positions (Maarten Schmidt), 1949-1950. Back to Yerkes, 1953-1957 (Bengt Strömgren, Gerard Kuiper, S. Chandrasekhar, A. Hiltner). Directorship of Kapteyn Laboratory, Groningen; organization of the Radio Foundation. Origins and development of European Southern Observatory; five-year term as Director. Views on development of astronomy in Holland (Antoine Pannekoek, Marcel Minnaert, Pieter van Rhijn); radio astronomy.
    Notes: 
    Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes.
    Interview conducted by David DeVorkin, 19 August 1979.
    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., 2001. 11 reels. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.
    Added Author: 
    DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.
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