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Smithsonian Videohistory Program.
Margaret J. Geller videohistory interviews [videorecording], 1989-1990.
The first session provides a personal perspective on the career of Margaret Geller, with emphasis on her formative years, early influences and interest in science, her personal struggles and development. Topics include reminiscences of her education a the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University; post-doctoral work a the Center for Astrophysics; discussion of the issues faced by women in the sciences; the development of a personal style and methodology for scientific research; her present research in the redshift survey, galaxy distribution, and the structure of the universe. The second session documents Geller's scientific and professional activities (c. 1970-1990). Topics include the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and plans for using the award; decision to concentrate in astrophysics; Statistical Virial Theorem project; collaborations with James Peebles and John Huchra; major publications; research on first rank galaxies, decision to join Harvard University Faculty; redshift surveys of galaxies and the bubble theory of galaxy distribution; Geller's unique scientific style and approach to research; observations about national and international trends and issues in astronomy and membership on various committees; efforts to make scientific concepts accessible to the general public.
Professor of astrophysics, Harvard University, and astrophysicist, Smithsonian-Harvard Center for Astrophysics, was universally regarded for her revolutionary work on the large-scale structure of the universe. The discovery by Geller, John Huchra and Valerie de Lapparent of the bubble structure of galaxies was argubly among the most important work in the late twentieth century.
Geller, Margaret J.
Huchra, John P.
Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Astrophysics
Galaxies -- Clusters.
Red shift
Women in science
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Astronomers -- Interviews.
Astrophysicists -- Interviews.
Women astronomers.
Geller, Margaret J.
DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.
Schneps, Matthew H. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
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