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McCrea, William Hunter.
Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.
Covers his family background, upbringing, education at the University of Cambridge, and positions at University of Edinburgh, Imperial College, University of Belfast, Royal Holloway College and University of Sussex. The scientific topics discussed include: the development of Newtonian cosmology, the origins and development of steady-state cosmology; work on theories of the solar system. Also prominently mentioned are: Philip Abelson, Luis Walter Alvarez, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Raymond Thayer Birge, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Ira Sprague Bowen, Sydney Chapman, Karl Taylor Compton, Edward Uhler Condon, Charles Galton Darwin, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Kenneth Dodd, Colonel Dudley, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Robley Dunglison Evans, Enrico Fermi, Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Howard Fowler, Friedman, Wolfgang Gentner, Thomas Gold, Sterling E. Hendricks, Fred Hoyle, Edwin Powell Hubble, Henry Hulme, James Jeans, W. O. Kermack, Joseph Larmor, Charles Christian Lauritsen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, George Lemítre, Milton Stanley Livingston, Howard J. Lucas, Walter Michels, Edward Arthur Milne, Joe Morris, Arthur A. Noyes, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling, Firth Pierce, George Placzek, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Samuel Ruben, Henry Norris Russell, Ryokishi Sagane, Samson, Erwin Schrd̲inger, Emilio Gino Segr,̈ George Paget Thomson, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler, Warren Weaver, Edmund T. Whittaker, Robert Rathbun Wilson, Charles Thomas Zahn; California Institute of Technology, Cambridge Radio Survey, Germany Kriegsmarine, Great Britain Science Research Council, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, National Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Princeton University, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Universitt̃ Gt̲tingen, University of California at Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, and Zeitschrift f r Physik.
Born 1904.
Abelson, Philip Hauge
Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988-
Bethe, Hans A, (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005-
Birge, Raymond T. (Raymond Thayer), 1887.
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974.
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973.
Chapman, Sydney, 1888-1970
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954.
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974.
Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962.
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Dodd, Kenneth
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1944.
Gentner, Wolfgang, 1906-1980
Gold, Thomas
Hendricks, Sterling E.
Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001
Hubble, Edwin, 1889-1953.
Hulme, Henry
Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946.
Kermack, W. O.
Larmor, Joseph
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)
Lucas, Howard J.
McCrea, William Hunter.
Michels, Walter C. (Walter Christian), 1906-1975.
Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.
Noyes, Arthur A. (Arthur Amos), 1866-1936
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Placzek, G. (George), 1905-1955.
Plaskett, Harry Hemley, 1893-
Ruben, Samuel
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
Sagane, Ryõkichi, 1905-1969.
Schrd̲inger, Erwin, 1887-1961.
Segr,̈ Emilio.
Thomson, G. P. (George Paget), 1892-1975
Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967
Veksler, Vladimir Iosifovich
Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978
Whittaker, Edmund Taylor, Sir
Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000
Zahn, Charles Thomas
California Institute of Technology.
Imperial College of Science and Technology.
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
National Institute of Theoretical Astronomy
Princeton University.
Queen's University of Belfast.
Royal Astronomical Society.
Royal Holloway College
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Science Research Council (Great Britain).
Universitt̃ Gt̲tingen.
University of California, Berkeley.
University of Cambridge.
University of Edinburgh.
University of Sussex.
Astrophysics -- Study and teaching.
Cosmology.
Steady state cosmology.
Solar system.
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Smith, Robert W. (Robert William), 1952- interviewer.
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