Savage, B. D.
Oral history interview with Blair D. Savage, 2014 May 14 and June 4.
In this interview Blair Savage discusses topics such as: what got him interested in astronomy; undergraduate education at Cornell University; Robert Jastrow; graduate education at Princeton University in astrophysics and physics; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Stratoscope II; Bob Danielson; Martin Schwarzschild; optical imaging; joining astronomy department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison; space astronomy; Lyman Spitzer; Hubble Space Telescope; Ted Houck; Robert Bless; Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO); John Bahcall; intergalactic medium (IGM); astronomical photography; big bang theory; Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS); spectroscopy; Richard Tousey; International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE).
Received MA (1966) and PhD (1967) in astronomy, Princeton University; involved in Stratoscope-II, 36 inch diffraction limited balloon born telescope; joined astronomy faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 and served as Chair (1982-1985).
Bahcall, John N.
Bless, Robert C., 1927-
Danielson, Bob
Houck, Theodore Edwin, 1926-
Jastrow, Robert, 1925-2008
Savage, B. D.
Schwarzschild, Martin
Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997
Tousey, Richard
Cornell University
Cornell University. Department of Physics
Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
IUE (Artificial satellite)
Princeton University
Princeton University. Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin--Madison. Department of Astronomy
Astronomical photography.
Astronomy
Big bang theory
Orbiting astronomical observatories
Space astronomy.
Spectrum analysis
Stratoscope II (balloon system).
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Transcripts. aat
Lattis, James M., interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA