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Bart Bok interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 2317706
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline [sound recording]
Author
Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983, Interviewee
 
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Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1973, Aug. 26 
1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.) 
Series

Hazel de Berg collection ; DeB 699

Summary

Professor Bok speaks of his reasons for working in Australia from 1957 to 1966 ; his interest in the southern Milky Way ; working in collaboration with his wife Dr. Priscilla Fairfield Bok on the book, The Milky Way, which later became a standard in the field, the reasons for becoming an astronomer ; the problems associated with obtaining a 150-inch telescope for the Anglo-Australian telescope project ; returning to Arizona.

Notes

Recorded on Aug. 26, 1973.

Also available online at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.oh-vn2317706

An edited version of this interview later published as: Australian astronomers /­ compiled by Ragbir Bhathal. Canberra : National Library of Australia, c1996.

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (16 p.) 
Subjects Bok, Bart J. - (Bart Jan), - 1906-1983 - Milky Way.  |  Bok, Bart J. - (Bart Jan), - 1906-1983 - Interviews.  |  Astronomers - United States - Interviews.
Other authors/contributors De Berg, Hazel, 1913-1984, Interviewer

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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
ORAL TRC 1/699 (transcript)
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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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