Pecker, Jean Claude on 1976 September 11 and 13: in French.
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| Title: | Pecker, Jean Claude on 1976 September 11 and 13: in French. |
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| Name(s): |
Pecker, Jean Claude Weart, Spencer R., 1942-, 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: | 1976 | |
| Extent: |
Transcript: 76 pages. Audio recording: 4 cassettes (4.0 hours). |
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| Abstract/Description: | Background and education to baccalauréat in June 1940. Anti-semitism and move to Grenoble, studies there under Fortrat; wartime difficulties. Passage through Ecole Normale Supérieure and comments on French educational hierarchy. Contacts with Bernard Lyot, Evry Schatzman, Marcel Minnaert; first steps in astrophysics, work on nuclear structure. Use of Bengt Strömgren's method in thesis on model non-gray atmospheres, 1951. Social climate of astrophysics in Holland, Copenhagen, Boulder, CO (where visited with Walter O. Roberts, Richard N. Thomas) and Paris. At Clermont-Ferrand, 1952-1955. Work on non-local thermodynamic equilibrium models, 1957. Director of Nice Observatory, situation there ca. 1962; problems of funding and organization in France. Move to Collège de France. Work on interstellar dust and cosmology since 1961; Paris colloquium on redshifts, 1976; politics of nonconventional cosmologies. Also prominently mentioned are: Anatole Abragam, M. Brelot, Fayet, Alfred Kastler, André Lallemand, Donald Howard Menzel, Henri Mineur, Louis Néel; and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). | |
| Note(s): |
Interview conducted by Spencer R. Weart, 11 and 13 September 1976. Interview conducted as part of the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project. 10" reel. Bethesda, MD: Cutting Corp., 2000. Original recording remastered onto 8 10" reels. Copies also available at Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics libraries of deposit. Born 1923. In French. Includes name index and table of contents. |
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| Subject(s): |
Abragam, A Brelot, M Fayet, G. (Gaston), 1874-1967 Fortrat, René Kastler, Alfred Lallemand, Andre Lyot, Bernard Ferdinand Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976 Mineur, Henri Minnaert, M. G. J. (Marcel Gilles Jozef), 1893-1970 Néel, Louis, 1904- Pecker, Jean Claude Roberts, Walter Orr Schatzman, Evry L Strömgren, Bengt, 1908-1987 Thomas, Richard Nelson Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France). Collège de France. École normale supérieure (France) Observatoire de Nice Université de Grenoble. Antisemitism Astronomical observatories -- Administration Astrophysics Astrophysics -- Political aspects Astrophysics -- Social aspects Cosmology Education -- France Nuclear physics Red shift Stars -- Structure Thermodynamics World War, 1939-1945 Sun |
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| Library Classification: | OH 4813 | |
| 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 Jean Claude Pecker by Spencer R. Weart on 1976 September 11 and 13, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, http://repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla:270961 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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