Interview with Alan H. Barrett, 1979

Alan H. Barrett, 1927-1991. Interviewed on 15 August 1979, IAU Meeting at Montreal, length of interview: 37 minutes.

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Barrett, Alan H.

Audio cassette tape

37 minutes

18 cm OH search at Naval Research Laboratory 1956 and detection at MIT ~1963; University of Michigan 85 foot construction and use; study of Venus from Earth and from Mariner II 1962 flyby. [Sullivan notes that the 1979 interview replaces the 1971 interview.]

1979-08-15

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Working Files Series

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