American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2009: Denver, Colo)
History of telescopes [sound recording], 2009 May 2.
Audio recording of session B5 of the April 2009 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Denver, Colorado in May 2009. This session was sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics, chaired by Daniel Kleppner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Talks (and speakers) include: "The Bionic Telescope" (Neville Woolf); "Radio Telescopes - A Technological Saga Sparked by Serendipity" (Paul Vanden Bout); "Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy: Measuring the Invisible through X Rays" (Christine Jones). Topics discussed cover the evolution of telescope design from lenses and optics to lasers, and then on to radio telescopes and x-ray telescopes.
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Physics -- History.
Physics -- History -- Congresses.
Optics.
Lenses.
Lasers.
Radio telescopes
X-ray telescopes.
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Jones, Christine, 1949-
Vanden Bout, Paul
Woolf, Neville
American Physical Society.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA