[Cover of Sullivan's book 2009, Cosmic Noise]
Sullivan's Cosmic Noise, Cambridge University Press, 2009


NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY ARCHIVES

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III: Tapes Series

Interviewee: James A. Roberts

James A. Roberts, 1927- . Interviewed 28 February 1978 at CSIRO/Radiophysics, Sydney, length of interview: 80 minutes.

Sullivan's brief summary of topics: 1950-52 as student of Hoyle's at Cambridge; comments on Radiophysics groups and styles; "aerial smoothing" theory with Bracewell; solar bursts observations and interpretations with Dapto spectrograph; theory of synchrotron radiation; Jupiter and radio source work at Owens Valley 1958-61.

Sullivan's files include: Publications card, Sullivan's notes, correspondence with Sullivan, archival material.


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