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Vonnegut, Bernard
Oral history interview with Bernard Vonnegut, 9 May 1993.
Bernard Vonnegut begins by recounting his education and how he became interested in meteorology through talking with Jim Dodson about airplane deicing. Vonnegut then talks about his work with the General Electric (GE) Research Laboratory on Project Cirrus and leaving GE to work on dissipating warm fog at Arthur D. Little. He comments on meeting Charlie Moore and studying thunderstorm electrification, elaborating on Moores personality and his study on ionosphere radiation. Earl Droesller asks about Vonneguts time as a professor at the State University of New York at Albany and Vonnegut talks about a student, Pacerelli, who researched crystal size for cloud seeding. He also talks about another student, Bob Ryan, and his successes as a TV weatherman and his current (during the interview) presidency of the American Meteorological Society. Vonnegut continues on to discuss his involvement in the space program observing lightening from astronaut cameras and Anton Seimons electrification research.
Meteorologist.
Moore, Charles B., 1920-2010
Seimon, Anton
Vonnegut, Bernard
American Meteorological Society
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
General Electric Company. Research Laboratory
Project Cirrus.
State University of New York at Albany.
Electrification.
Fog
Ionosphere
Lightning.
Meteorology
Rain-making
Thunderstorms.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Meteorologists -- Interviews. lcsh
Droessler, Earl G. interviewer
American Meteorological Society
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
AIP-ICOS
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Archives. PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
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