Osterbrock, Donald E.
Oral History interview with Donald E. Osterbrock, 2003 February 10.
Donald Osterbrock recalls mainly his early association with Caltechs astronomy department. He describes his education at University of Chicago and Yerkes Observatory in physics and astronomy under E. Fermi, S. Chandrasekhar, O. Struve, and others. He discusses his move to Caltech in 1953 to work with Jesse Greenstein and other astronomers associated with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain: G. M nch, A. Code, F. Zwicky. Recalls colloquia with staff of Mount Wilson Observatory, operated by Carnegie Institution of Washington, including W. Baade and R. Minkowski. Interactions with Caltech physicists W. Fowler, R. Feynman, R. Leighton; also visitors F. Hoyle and G. and M. Burbidge.
Donald E. Osterbrock (1924- ). Astronomer; professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California at Santa Cruz from 1972, and former director of the Lick Observatory.
Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
Burbidge, E. Margaret.
Burbidge, Geoffrey R.
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995-
Code, Arthur D.
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Fowler, William A.
Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002-
Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001
Leighton, Robert B.
M nch, Guido, 1921-
Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
Zwicky, F. (Fritz), 1898-1974
Yerkes Observatory -- Officials and employees.
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Minkowski, Rudolph Leo Bernhard, 1895-1976.
Cohen, Shirley, 1922- interviewer.
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