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Marsden Brian B3

Brian Marsden - Session I

Interviewed by: 
David DeVorkin
Interview date: 
Monday, 17 October 2005
Location: 
Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Biographical profile of astronomer Brian Marsden, emphasizing his career at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Topics discussed include his childhood and education; contact with David Dewhirst; attending New College, Oxford; Fred Whipple; Gerald Merton; joining the British Astronomical Association; Arthur Beer; comets; Sputnik; orbit calculations; Dorothy Sayers; Olin Eggen; Cambridge University; decision to go to Yale University to study with Dirk Brouwer; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); Edgar Everhart and G.

Marsden Brian B3

Brian Marsden - Session II

Interviewed by: 
David DeVorkin
Interview date: 
Monday, 17 October 2005
Location: 
Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Biographical profile of astronomer Brian Marsden, emphasizing his career at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Topics discussed include his childhood and education; contact with David Dewhirst; attending New College, Oxford; Fred Whipple; Gerald Merton; joining the British Astronomical Association; Arthur Beer; comets; Sputnik; orbit calculations; Dorothy Sayers; Olin Eggen; Cambridge University; decision to go to Yale University to study with Dirk Brouwer; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); Edgar Everhart and G.