Interview with Hermann Bondi

Hermann Bondi, 1919-2005. Interviewed 14 March 1988 at Churchill College, Cambridge, Length of interview: 29 minutes.

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Bondi, Hermann

Audio cassette tape

29 minutes

Wartime radio work; philosophy of the role of theory; personalities of Gold, Hoyle and Ryle; steady-state theory and how it could best be disproved; 2C source counts; Gamow's Big Bang and origin of elements problem.

1988-03-14

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