Interview with John "Jack" Hobart Piddington

John "Jack" Hobart Piddington, 1910-1997. Interviewed 13 March 1978 at the National Measurements Laboratory in Sydney, length of interview: 70 minutes.

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

Contact Archivist for details. See Addresses Needed.

Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Piddington, John "Jack" Hobart

Audio cassette tape

70 minutes

1978-03-13

Wartime work in Radiophysics; brief WWII attempt to detect sun and calculations on moon radar; high-frequency (>600 MHz) projects on moon, sun, and galactic background 1948-51; solar corona/chromosphere theory and galactic background theory and disputes regarding his theories; radio burst and solar active regions theory; "cosmic electrodynamcis"; synchrotron theory.

Working Files Series

Individuals Unit