Interview with Govind Swarup

Description

Govind Swarup, 1929-2020. Interviewed 17 August 1976 at Cambridge, length of interview: 30 minutes.

Creator

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

Rights

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Relation

See Sullivan's 1982 photo of Swarup.

Type

Oral History

Interviewer

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Interviewee

Swarup, Govind

Original Format of Digital Item

Audio cassette tape

Duration

30 minutes

Interview Topics

~1955-58 at CSIRO and 1958-63 at Stanford working on solar Chris-Cross arrays, SVC, etc.; the set-up of radio astronomy at the Tata Institute and idea and building of Ooty earth-rotation lunar occulation instrument.

Start Date

1976-08-17

Series

Working Files Series

Unit

Individuals Unit

Citation

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III, “Interview with Govind Swarup,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed November 9, 2025, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/15230.