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Oral history interview with George C. McVittie, 1978 March 21.

Author: George C McVittie; David H DeVorkin
Edition/Format:   Archival material : English
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Early home life and schooling in Turkey; years at University of Edinburgh and University of London after fall of Smyrna, 1922; work in London with father; entrance and experiences at University of Cambridge; contact with Arthur S. Eddington and scientific interests in mathematical relativity and stellar structure; University of Leeds, 1930-1934; work in general relativity; later academic positions; work in World War
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Genre/Form: Oral history
Interview
Audiotapes
Transcript
Named Person: Charles Galton Darwin, Sir; P A M Dirac; R H Fowler; Werner Heisenberg; Edwin Powell Hubble; William Hunter McCrea; Edward Arthur Milne; Bertrand Russell; R A Sampson; Harlow Shapley; C P Snow
Document Type: Archival Material
All Authors / Contributors: George C McVittie; David H DeVorkin
OCLC Number: 84131985
Notes: Interview conducted by David DeVorkin, 21 March 1978.
Interview conducted as part of the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project.
Description: 1 session, audiotape, 4 cassettes, 4.0 hr. Transcript, 69 p.

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Early home life and schooling in Turkey; years at University of Edinburgh and University of London after fall of Smyrna, 1922; work in London with father; entrance and experiences at University of Cambridge; contact with Arthur S. Eddington and scientific interests in mathematical relativity and stellar structure; University of Leeds, 1930-1934; work in general relativity; later academic positions; work in World War II; move to University of Illinois and development of radio astronomy; Steady State Cosmology; general views on cosmology; Channel 37. Also prominently mentioned are: Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann, Charles Galton Darwin, Katherine Darwin, Herbert Dingle, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Ralph Howard Fowler, Stephen Hawking, Werner Heisenberg, Edwin Powell Hubble, E.C. Jordan, Henning Larsen, George Lemâitre, William Hunter McCrea, Edward Arthur Milne, Bertrand Russell, R.A. Sampson, Allan Sandage, Harlow Shapley, Charles P. Snow, George W. Stoddard, George W. Swenson, Jr., A.H. Taub, George Temple, Albert Edward Whitford, Edmund T. Whittaker, Jack Whittaker; Blackford Hill Observatory, Great Britain Post Office, Green Bank Observatory, International Telecommunications Union, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Queen Mary College (University of London), Royal Astronomical Society, United States Federal Communications Commission, University of Edinburgh, University of Illinois, University.

Of Kent at Canterbury, and Vermillion River Observatory.

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