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Stromgren Bengt B2

Bengt Strömgren - Session I

Interviewed by: 
Lillian Hoddeson and Gordon Baym
Interview date: 
Wednesday, 5 May 1976
Location: 
Strömgren's office, Observatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

Family background and early interest in astronomy (Elis Stromgren). Undergraduate and graduate studies at University of Copenhagen, late 1920s; studies at Niels Bohr Institute, 1927-1929; thesis work in classical astronomy (orbits of comets). Development of photoelectric photometry and observations; early electronics, 1925; conflicting results in calculations of opacities (Arthur Stanley Eddington, Gaunt, Thomas T. Sugihara, Svein Rosseland, J. R. Oppenheimer, Meghnad N. Saha, R. H. Fowler, E.

Stromgren Bengt B2

Bengt Strömgren - Session II

Interviewed by: 
Lillian Hoddeson and Gordon Baym
Interview date: 
Thursday, 13 May 1976
Location: 
Strömgren's office, Observatory, Copenhagen, Denmark

Family background and early interest in astronomy (Elis Stromgren). Undergraduate and graduate studies at University of Copenhagen, late 1920s; studies at Niels Bohr Institute, 1927–1929; thesis work in classical astronomy (orbits of comets). Development of photoelectric photometry and observations; early electronics, 1925; conflicting results in calculations of opacities (Arthur Stanley Eddington, Gaunt, Thomas T. Sugihara, Svein Rosseland, J. R. Oppenheimer, Meghnad N. Saha, R. H. Fowler, E.