In this interview, David Zierler, Oral Historian for AIP, interviews Charles Baltay, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale. Baltay recounts his childhood in Europe as a refugee during World War II and his teenage years in Long Island. He discusses his education as an undergraduate at Union College and his graduate work at Yale, where he developed his expertise in particle physics under the mentorship of Jack Sandweiss and Horace Taft. Baltay discusses his first professorship at Columbia, his work with bubble chambers and CP violation, and his collaborative projects at Brookhaven and Fermilab. He describes his close work with Steve Weinberg, and his work at SLAC, where he conducted research on the SLC project. Baltay describes his decision to join the faculty at Yale and he describes his longstanding interest in Z decays. He shares his view on the rise and fall of the SSC, and at the end of the interview, he explains his more recent interest in cosmology.