Interview with Jaakko Tuominen

Jaakko Tuominen, 1909-1989. Interviewed 30 August 1976 at Grenoble, length of interview: 9 minutes.

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Tuominen, Jaakko

Audio cassette tape

9 minutes

Finnish solar radio astronomy ~1954+.

1976-08-30

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