Unsöld, Albrecht on 1984 February 24: in German.
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Abstract/Description: | Munich during the 1920s, working with Arnold Sommerfeld and Gregor Wentzel. Comments on fellow students: Walter Heitler, Rudolf Peierls, and Helmuth Hönl. Comments on Karl Schwarzschild (Gustav Mie and Hendrik van de Hulst) and Peter Debye. Comments on work with Henry N. Russell, Walter S. Adams relating to the chemical composition of the sun, spectra of the stars and on abundance of hydrogen in stars; Rupert Wildt's work in 1938 on the negative hydrogen ion. Guest professorship at Yerkes Observatory working with Otto Struve on Tau Scorpii; publication of his book, Physik der Sternatmosphären in 1938. Impressions of other astronomers: Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin, Edwin Milne, Harlow Shapley, Ernest Öpik, Fred Hoyle; reminiscing about his meeting with Arthur Eddington at University of Cambridge; the Chandrasekhar-Eddington confrontation; editor of Zeitschrift für Astronomie (Walter Grotrian, Emanuel J. von der Pahlen). Work on radio astronomy in Kiel, Theorie der Thermischen Radiofrequenzstrahlung article published after the War. Establishment of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Discussion of the controversial article in Physikalische Blätter (1980). |
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Subject(s): | Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956 Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995- Sir Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 1882-1944 Grotrian, Walter Heitler, Walter, 1904- Hönl, Helmut Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001 Hulst, H. C. van de (Hendrik Christoffel), 1918- Mie, Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig, 1868- Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950 Öpik, Ernst Julius, 1893-1985 Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979- Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995 Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957 Schwarzschild, K. (Karl), 1873-1916 Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951 Struve, Otto, 1897-1963 Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905- Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978- Wildt, Rupert Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Universität München. University of Cambridge. Yerkes Observatory. Astronomers Astrophysics Hydrogen ions Radio astronomy Stars -- Spectra Sun |
Title: | Unsöld, Albrecht on 1984 February 24: in German. | |
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Name(s): |
Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905- Harwit, Martin, 1931-, interviewer. |
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Type of Resource: | mixed material | |
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Oral histories. Interviews. Sound recordings. Transcripts. |
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Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Created: | 1984 | |
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Transcript: 24 pages. Audio recording: 2 cassettes. |
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Abstract/Description: | Munich during the 1920s, working with Arnold Sommerfeld and Gregor Wentzel. Comments on fellow students: Walter Heitler, Rudolf Peierls, and Helmuth Hönl. Comments on Karl Schwarzschild (Gustav Mie and Hendrik van de Hulst) and Peter Debye. Comments on work with Henry N. Russell, Walter S. Adams relating to the chemical composition of the sun, spectra of the stars and on abundance of hydrogen in stars; Rupert Wildt's work in 1938 on the negative hydrogen ion. Guest professorship at Yerkes Observatory working with Otto Struve on Tau Scorpii; publication of his book, Physik der Sternatmosphären in 1938. Impressions of other astronomers: Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin, Edwin Milne, Harlow Shapley, Ernest Öpik, Fred Hoyle; reminiscing about his meeting with Arthur Eddington at University of Cambridge; the Chandrasekhar-Eddington confrontation; editor of Zeitschrift für Astronomie (Walter Grotrian, Emanuel J. von der Pahlen). Work on radio astronomy in Kiel, Theorie der Thermischen Radiofrequenzstrahlung article published after the War. Establishment of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Discussion of the controversial article in Physikalische Blätter (1980). | |
Note(s): |
Interview conducted by Martin Harwit, 24 February 1984. Digital master copy saved to external hard drive, 2013. Loan copies may be made from digital copy. In German. Includes name index. |
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Subject(s): |
Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956 Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995- Sir Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 1882-1944 Grotrian, Walter Heitler, Walter, 1904- Hönl, Helmut Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001 Hulst, H. C. van de (Hendrik Christoffel), 1918- Mie, Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig, 1868- Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950 Öpik, Ernst Julius, 1893-1985 Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979- Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995 Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957 Schwarzschild, K. (Karl), 1873-1916 Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951 Struve, Otto, 1897-1963 Unsöld, Albrecht, 1905- Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978- Wildt, Rupert Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Universität München. University of Cambridge. Yerkes Observatory. Astronomers Astrophysics Hydrogen ions Radio astronomy Stars -- Spectra Sun |
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Library Classification: | OH 4925 | |
Held by: | American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA | |
Restrictions on Access: |
In footnotes or endnotes please cite AIP interviews like this: Interview of Albrecht Unsöld by Martin Harwit on 1984 February 24, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, http://repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla:271349 Oral history interview may be read by any researcher with an approved access application on file, but copies and quotes may not be made, except with the written permission of the Institute. |
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