Interview with Frank J. Kerr on 3 October 1971

Frank J. Kerr, 1918-2000. Interviewed 3 October 1971 while traveling from Washington D.C. to Charlottesville, Virginia, length of interview: 135 minutes.

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Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Kerr, Frank J.

Audio cassette tape

135 minutes

1971-10-03

1945 (and some mention of Southworth and Hey and other radar during the war) to "commissioning" of Parkes' 210 ft in 1961. History of CSIRO including research - cliff interferometer and other early work at those seaside field stations (still need to talk about Fleurs, Potts Hill, etc), moon radar, 21-cm confirmation, development of Australian radio astronomy in general, story of Parkes dish and Bowen-Mills-Christiansen antagonism, J. Pawsey as a man and a teacher.

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