Interview with James A. Roberts

Description

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

Creator

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

Rights

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Relation

See Sullivan's 1981 photo of Roberts.

Type

Oral History

Interviewer

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Interviewee

Roberts, James A.

Original Format of Digital Item

Audio cassette tape

Duration

80 minutes

Interview Date

1978-02-28

Interview 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.

Series

Working Files Series

Unit

Individuals Unit

Citation

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III, “Interview with James A. Roberts,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed July 10, 2025, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/15146.