NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY ARCHIVES

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III: Tapes Series

Interviewee: Francis Graham Smith

Francis Graham Smith, 1923- . Interviewed 27 August 1976 in Grenoble, length of interview: 75 minutes.

Sullivan's brief summary of topics: Radio source positions and sizes at Cambridge ~1947-53; optical identifications; development of precision interferometric techniques; ionospheric scintillations; solar corona occulations of Tau A; philosophy of Cambridge group; 1950s meetings.

Sullivan's files include: Sullivan's notes, transcription of Sullivan's interview (reviewed and edited by Sullivan), transcription of 1971 Edge/Mulkay interview, correspondence with Sullivan, archival material.

See the Listing of Conferences and Lectures for Graham Smith's 1982 talk on history.

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