If you are not immediately redirected, please click here
Roberts, Walter Orr
Walter Orr Roperts response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, 1980.
File consists of: questionnaire with brief, handwritten responses. Recipients were asked to discuss their decision to enter astronomy; their work during the Second World War; their professional work outside astronomy; the fields in which they have been most active, the advances in both those fields and others, and their own accomplishments and satisfactions; sources of funding; their perceptions of public attitudes; the influence of religion or philosopy on their work as astronomers; and their opinions on questions relating to the Big Bang Theory, cosmology, up-coming important developments, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Orr was born in 1915.
Roberts, Walter Orr
Astronomers -- Biography.
Astronomy
Astronomy -- Public opinion.
Astrophysicists -- Biography.
Astrophysics
Astrophysics -- History.
Astrophysicists -- Biography.
Cosmology
Life on other planets
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
Questionnaires aat
Astrophysicists lcsh
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Catalog