Interview with Gordon J. Stanley on 12 August 1981

Gordon J. Stanley, 1921-2001. Interviewed 12 August 1981 at the URSI Meeting in Washington, D.C., length of interview: 130 minutes.

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Stanley, Gordon J.

Audio cassette tape

130 minutes

1981-08-12

1946-52 with Bolton on radio source catalogs, identifications, scintillation, etc. (also a bit of first ~1946 solar work in Radiophysics); New Zealand expedition of ~1948; key decisions in CSIRO/Radiophysics on new aerials (Mills X, Parkes) and personalities involved; 1955-62 at Owens Valley (+30ft on Palomar); relationship to optical astronomers; many opinions on people.

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