Pasachoff, Jay M.
Oral history interview with Jay Pasachoff, 2021 September 10 & 15.
Interview with Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College. Pasachoff discusses his childhood in New York City and his early interests in astronomy, telescopes and math. He recalls participating in a summer math program at Berkeley after his high school graduation, before he enrolled at Harvard as an undergrad. He recounts being invited to partake in observational research at Sacramento Peak Observatory, where he worked with Jacques Beckers and Bob Noyes. Pasachoff then explains his decision to continue at Harvard for his graduate studies, where Bob Noyes became his thesis advisor. He remembers finishing his PhD while also working at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory, doing radio astronomy work. Pasachoff discusses the events that led to his postdoc at Caltech, and his subsequent move to Williams College. Throughout the interview, Pasachoff remembers many of the solar eclipses he has observed and his research surrounding them. He also discusses the many textbooks he has written over the years.
Jay Pasachoff is the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College. He completed his graduate studies at Harvard University and postdoctoral research at Caltech. He is the author of many astronomy textbooks.
Abell, George O. (George Ogden), 1927-1983.
Avrett, Eugene H., 1933-
Beckers, J. M. (Jacques Maurice)
Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007
Glashow, Sheldon L.
Layzer, David.
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976
Noyes, Robert W., 1934-
Pasachoff, Jay M.
Wilson, Olin, C., 1909-1994
Zirin, Harold
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.)
American Astronomical Society
California Institute of Technology
Harvard University.
Hayden Planetarium
Mount Wilson Observatory
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Sacramento Peak Observatory
Williams College
Pulsars
Quantum theory
Radio astronomy
Solar atmosphere.
Solar chromosphere.
Solar eclipses
Solar physics -- Research.
Sputnik satellites
Transits -- Observations.
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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