Plaskett, Harry Hemley, 1893-
Oral history interview with Harry Hemley Plaskett, 1978 March 29.
Discussion of astronomers of greatest significance in recent history. Personal recollections of his father's (John Plaskett) associates: Karl Schwarzschild, Edward A. Milne, Arthur S. Eddington, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Joseph N. Lockyer, Alfred Fowler, Meghnad N. Saha, Henry N. Russell, Frank Schlesinger, Jan H. Oort, Edwin Hubble, Albrecht Unsl̲d, Bengt Strm̲gren, Harlow Shapley, Walter Baade, George E. Hale, William H. Wright, Vesto M. Slipher. Also prominently mentioned are: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Theodore Dunham, Jr., Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Norman Lockyer, Edward Arthur Milne, Edward Charles Pickering, Henry A. Rowland; Harvard College Observatory, Lick Observatory, and University of London Imperial College.
Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Dunham, Theodore, 1897-1984.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
Fowler, William A.
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967.
Hubble, Edwin, 1889-1953
Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920.
Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.
Oort, Jan Hendrik.
Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919.
Plaskett, Harry Hemley, 1893-
Plaskett, John Stanley, 1865-1941.
Rowland, Henry Augustus, 1848-1901.
Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957
Saha, Meghnad, 1893-1956.
Schlesinger, Frank, 1871-1943.
Schwarzschild, K. (Karl), 1873-1916.
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
Slipher, Vesto Melvin, 1875-1969.
Strm̲gren, Bengt, 1908-1987
Unsl̲d, Albrecht, 1905-
Wright, William Hammond, 1871-1959.
Harvard College Observatory
Imperial College of Science and Technology.
Lick Observatory.
Astronomy.
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DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
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