Saslaw, William C.
Oral history interview with William Saslaw, 2002 May 17 and 20.
In this interview William Saslaw discusses topics such as: George Field; astronomy; Fred Hoyle; Dennis Sciama; University of Cambridge Astronomy department; undergraduate work at Princeton University; steady state vs. big bang theory; Martin Rees; Leon Mestel; Kitt Peak Observatory; dark matter haloes; radio galaxies; Gerard De Vaucouleurs; Abell clusters; Vera Rubin; active galactic nucleus (AGN); quasars; George Gamow; Paul Dirac; cosmology; gravity; thermodynamics; red shifts; large scale structure; John Wheeler.
Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia; research interests include cosmology, radio galaxies, and stellar dynamics.
De Vaucouleurs, Gřard, 1918-1995
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Field, George B., 1929-
Gamow, George, 1904-1968
Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001
Mestel, Leon.
Rees, Martin J., 1942-
Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016
Saslaw, William C.
Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008.
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Princeton University
Princeton University. Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences.
University of Cambridge
Active galactic nuclei
Astronomy
Big bang theory
Cosmology
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Galaxies
Gravity.
Large scale structure (Astronomy)
Quasars
Red shift
Steady state cosmology.
Thermodynamics
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Smeenk, Chris, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA