Interview with Richard Quentin Twiss

Description

Richard Quentin Twiss, 1920-2005. Interviewed 17 July 1981 by telephone from Groningen to London, length of interview: 55 minutes.

Creator

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

Rights

Contact Archivist for details. See Addresses Needed.

Type

Oral History

Interviewer

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Interviewee

Twiss, Richard Quentin

Original Format of Digital Item

Audio cassette tape

Duration

55 minutes

Interview Topics

1949-62 involvement with radio astronomy (partial - publications 1954+), mainly with theory and practice of the intensity interferometer (optical and radio, controversies); also radio emission mechanisms theory and radio source theory and some radio source observations and radio source theory at CSRIO/Radiophysics; radio astronomy in general.

Start Date

1981-07-17

Series

Working Files Series

Unit

Individuals Unit

Citation

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III, “Interview with Richard Quentin Twiss,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed December 3, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/15257.