Search results
Displaying 1 - 2 of total 2 results:
Interviewed by:
Paul Wright
Interview date:
Wednesday, 31 July 1974
Location:
Jesse Greenstein's home, Pasadena, California
Childhood in New York; high school experience at Horace Mann; Harvard undergraduate at the age of 15. Impressions of ordeal with Harlow Shapley. Depression years in the family business, return to a very changed Harvard in 1934. Thesis work on Interstellar Absorption (Bart Bok), Ph.D. 1937. Postdoc at Yerkes Observatory (Otto Struve) working on Upsilon Sagittarius. Develops the 140-degree camera (the Greenstein-Louis G.
Interviewed by:
David DeVorkin
Interview date:
Tuesday, 11 July 1978
Location:
Hale Observatories, Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, California
Interview examines early life in San Francisco and first contacts with Astronomy in 1920; Public Lectures under auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; college years at Berkeley, 1926-1930; interests in physics and astronomy; contact with D.