If you are not immediately redirected, please click here
Baker, James Gilbert
Oral history interview with James Baker, 1980 June 9.
In this interview, James Gilbert Baker discusses: his family and childhood; William Marshall Bullitt; Harlow Shapley; University of Louisville; Walter L. Moore; American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO); Richard Prager; Harvard University; Bart Bok; Otto Struve; A. Pannekoek; Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin; Ted Sterne; Don Menzel; E. Bright Wilson; Leon Campbell; Lawrence Aller; Rudolph Langer; Henry Norris Russell; S. Chandrasekhar; Joe Boyce; George Harrison; optics; Leo Goldberg; Harvard Society of Fellows; Ivan A. Getting; atomic bomb; Lise Meitner; Niels Bohr; R. W. Wood; aerial photography; Ted Dunham; Fred Whipple.
American optical physicist and astronomer (1914-2005). M.A. (1936), Ph.D astronomy and astrophysics (1942), Harvard University. Professional experience includes: resident fellow, director of optical research laboratory, observatory associate professor, observatory research associate, Harvard University (1942-1962); research associate, Lick Observatory (1948-1960); consultant, United States Air Force (1949-1957); member, Scientific Advisory Board (1952-1957); chairman, vice rpesident, International Commission for Optics (1956-1962); consultant, Aerospace Corporation (1966-1975); associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1966-2005); photographer of physics, Polaroid Corporation (1966-2005); trustee, Perkin fund (1970-2005).
Aller, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Hugh), 1913-2003
Baker, James Gilbert
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983
Boyce, Joseph Canon, 1903-1983-
Bullitt, Wm. Marshall (William Marshall), b. 1873
Campbell, Leon, 1881-1951
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Dunham, Theodore, 1897-1984.
Getting, Ivan A. (Ivan Alexander), 1912-
Goldberg, Leo.
Harrison, George L.
Langer, Rudolph Ernest, 1894-1968
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976
Moore, Walter Lee 1898-1989
Pannekoek, Anton, 1873-1960
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979-
Prager, Richard 1883-1945
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Sterne, Theodore E.
Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
Wilson, E. Bright (Edgar Bright), 1908-
Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955
American Association of Variable Star Observers.
Harvard University.
Harvard University. Society of Fellows
University of Louisville
Aerial photography
Atomic bomb
Optics
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
DeVorkin, David H., 1944-, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Catalog