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Roberts, Walter Orr
Oral history interview with Walter Orr Roberts, 1983 July 26 and July 28.
This interview reviews in detail Roberts' childhood experiences before addressing his work on the solar corona; solar spicules and prominences; the orgins of geomagnetic disturbances; and the influence of variable solar activity on the earth's ionosphere and weather. Roberts also discusses his graduate education under Donald Menzel at Harvard, his varied career as a researcher and administrator, and his participation in the establishment of the Climax, Colorado solar coronagraph station of Harvard College. Other topics and affliliations discussed include: his work as Director of the High Altitude Observatory (1946-1961); his tenure as Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (1960-1968); communist investigations among scientists; the observatory at Sacramento Peak; rocketry research; and his relationship with Harlow Shapley.
(1915-1990), physicist. Ph.D. (astrophysics), 1943. Researcher, Eastman Kodak (1938-39); Harvard University, observer, (1942-1946); High Altitude Observatory, University of Colorado, director (1946-1961); NCAR, director (1961-1968). Research in solar astronomy, geophysics, solar weather, coronographs, photography in science.
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976
Roberts, Walter Orr
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Amherst College.
Harvard University.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.) -- Administration.
Sacramento Peak Observatory
University of Colorado. High Altitude Observatory.
University of Colorado Boulder
Astrophysics -- History.
Atmosphere -- Research.
Communism and science.
Coronagraphs
Rocketry -- Research.
Solar activity.
Spectrum analysis.
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Archives. PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
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