Giclas, H. L. (Henry L.)
Oral history interview with Henry Lee Giclas, 1987 August 12.
Born in Flagstaff, Arizona; spends professional life as astronomer in Flagstaff, 1931-1981. Early life in Flagstaff, the Lowell Observatory's place in it, and how he became a research assistant at Lowell, with particular emphasis on V. M. Slipher, the director from 1916-1955. Describes how the Observatory was transformed as a research institution after World War II, due to changing research topics and shifting patterns of patronage.
Born 1910.
Giclas, H. L. (Henry L.)
Slipher, Vesto Melvin, 1875-1969.
Lowell Observatory.
Astronomical observatories, -- Arizona.
Astronomy.
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Smith, Robert W. (Robert William), 1952- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA