Start Date:1969-04

Location:White Sands Missile Range, NM

People:Novick, Robert

Creator:Papers of Paul A. Vanden Bout

Series:Photographs Series

Type:Still Image

Original Format of Digital Item:Slide

Description:Paul Vanden Bout writes, "From 1967-70 I was at Columbia U., first as a postdoc and then as an Asst. Prof. Roger Angel and I shared an office. We were both in Robert Novick’s research group, working on x-ray astronomy projects. These slides are of the launch of Angel’s payload, an x-ray polarimeter. The launch was successful and he got a measure of the polarization of x-rays emitted by the Crab Nebula. The experiment was the idea of Lo Woltjer, chairman of the Columbia Astronomy Department. Slide 8 is Angel’s payload. Novick is on the left. Person on the right is neither Angel nor me. Unknown." [show more]