Oral History Interviews

Interviews that offer unique insights into the lives, works, and personalities of modern scientists

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Robert Farquhar - Session I

Interviewed by: 
David DeVorkin
Interview date: 
Thursday, 15 November 2007
Location: 
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D. C.

In this interview Robert Farquhar discusses topics such as: family background and childhood; beginning his interest in aviation; joining the Army and fighting in the Korean War; doing undergraduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for aeronautical engineering; George McVittie; orbital dynamics and thinking about getting into cosmology; Sputnik; deciding to go to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study astrodynamics; working at the RAND corporation; Sam Herrick; Robert M. L.

Robert Farquhar - Session II

Interviewed by: 
David DeVorkin
Interview date: 
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Location: 
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D. C.

In this interview Robert Farquhar discusses topics such as: family background and childhood; beginning his interest in aviation; joining the Army and fighting in the Korean War; doing undergraduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for aeronautical engineering; George McVittie; orbital dynamics and thinking about getting into cosmology; Sputnik; deciding to go to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study astrodynamics; working at the RAND corporation; Sam Herrick; Robert M. L.

Robert Farquhar - Session III

Interviewed by: 
David DeVorkin
Interview date: 
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Location: 
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D. C.

In this interview Robert Farquhar discusses topics such as: family background and childhood; beginning his interest in aviation; joining the Army and fighting in the Korean War; doing undergraduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for aeronautical engineering; George McVittie; orbital dynamics and thinking about getting into cosmology; Sputnik; deciding to go to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study astrodynamics; working at the RAND corporation; Sam Herrick; Robert M. L.

Robert Farquhar - Session IV

Interviewed by: 
David DeVorkin
Interview date: 
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Location: 
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D. C.

In this interview Robert Farquhar discusses topics such as: family background and childhood; beginning his interest in aviation; joining the Army and fighting in the Korean War; doing undergraduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for aeronautical engineering; George McVittie; orbital dynamics and thinking about getting into cosmology; Sputnik; deciding to go to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study astrodynamics; working at the RAND corporation; Sam Herrick; Robert M. L.