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Hoffleit, Dorrit
Oral history interview with Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit, 1979 August 4.
Early life in Pennsylvania; German background; training at Radcliffe College and Harvard College Observatory; staff positions at Harvard and Yale Universities and the Maria Mitchell Observatory. Comments on growth of research interests; the administration of the Harvard College Observatory under Harlow Shapley and Donald Menzel; ballistics research during World War II; women in science. Specific research areas discussed include spectroscopy, luminosity criteria, astrometry and variable stars. Also prominently mentioned are: Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, James G. Baker, Ida Barney, Albert Bennett, Bart Jan Bok, Dirk Brouwer, Annie Jump Cannon, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Leland Cunningham, Henry Draper, Willard Fisher, Leo Goldberg, Graustein, Margaret Harwood, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Edwin Powell Hubble, Tom Johnson, F. Kopal, Frederick Leonard, Antonia Maury, Margaret Olmsted, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Edward Charles Pickering, Richard Prager, Dirk Reuyl, Henry Norris Russell, Harlan Smith, Theodore Sterne, Harlan Stetson, Otto Struve, Henrietta Hill Swope, Clyde William Tombaugh, Walker, Adriaan J. Wesselink, Fred Whipple; Aberdeen Proving Ground Ballistics Research Laboratory, Armagh-Dunsink-Harvard Telescope, Bond Astronomical Club, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michelson Laboratory, Mount Wilson Observatory, Phi Beta Kappa, V-2 (Rocket), and Vassar College.
Born 1907.
Atkinson, Robert d'Escourt, 1898-1982
Baker, James Gilbert
Barney, Ida
Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983
Brouwer, Dirk, 1902-
Cannon, Annie Jump, 1863-1941
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882.
Fisher, Willard
Goldberg, Leo.
Harwood, Margaret
Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967.
Hoffleit, Dorrit
Hubble, Edwin, 1889-1953
Johnson, Thomas Hope
Kopal, F.
Leonard, Frederick Charles, 1896-1960.
Maury, Antonia Caetana De Paiva Pereira, 1866-1952
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976
Olmsted, Margaret
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979-
Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919.
Reuyl, Dirk
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Smith, Harlan J.
Sterne, Theodore E.
Stetson, Harlan True, 1885-1964.
Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1902-1980.
Tombaugh, Clyde William, 1906-1997
Wesselink, Adriaan Jan, 1909-1995.
Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
Bond Astronomical Club
Harvard College Observatory
Maria Mitchell Observatory (Nantucket, Mass.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Michelson Laboratory
Mount Wilson Solar Observatory
Phi Beta Kappa.
Radcliffe College. Dept. of Mathematics.
Vassar College.
Yale University.
Armagh-Dunsink-Harvard Telescope.
Astrometry.
Astronomical instruments.
Astronomical observatories -- Administration.
Astronomy.
Astrophysics
Astrophysics -- History
Ballistics.
Spectrum analysis
Variable stars.
V-2 rocket.
Women in science.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.)
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Interviews. aat
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.
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