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

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 Archives, accessed April 2, 2023, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/15146.