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Baum, William A.
Oral history interview with William A. Baum, 2004 June 18.
The first part of the interview focuses mainly on William Baum's time at Lowell Observatory in the 1970's and the advancement of charge-couled device (CCD) technology. This discussion leads to the topic of Baum's participation with the Hubble Space Telescope. Then the focus switches to Baum's time at the Mt. Wilson Palomar Observatory in the 1950's. The remainder of the interview primarily deals with the Carnegie Image Tube Committee and the development of image intensifier tubes. At the end of the interview Baum reflects on the possibility of a memoir, the relationship between astronomy and instrumentation, and distance indicators. Other topics include: California Institute of Technology (Caltech); Jim Westphal; Jim Gunn; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); photometry; American Astronomical Society (AAS); Ira Bowen; Vannevar Bush; Merle Tuve; Kent Ford; Carnegie Institution Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM); International Astronomical Union (IAU); Walter Baade; Ed Groth.
Physicist. Affiliations: Naval Research Laboratory, 1946-1949; Mt. Wilson and Paolmar Observatory, 1950-1965; Planetary Research Center (Lowell Observatory), 1965-1990; consultant, Office of Space Science, NASA, 1970-present; Viking Orbiter Imaging Team (1970-1979) and Hubble Space Telescope Camera Team (1977-1997); Professor, University of Washington, 1990-present. Research interests: galaxies, spacecraft implementation, cosmology.
Baade, Walter, 1893-1960
Baum, William A.
Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973
Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974
Ford, W. Kent, Jr.
Groth, Edward John, III, 1946-
Gunn, J. E. (James Edward), 1938-
Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982
Westphal, J. A. (James Adolph), 1930-2004
American Astronomical Society
California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
International Astronomical Union
Lowell Observatory
Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Astronomy
Charge coupled devices.
Image intensifiers.
Instrumentation.
Photometry
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944-, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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