Interview with Harry van der Laan (with Kenneth I. Kellermann)

Harry van der Laan, 1936- . Interviewed 19 March 1975 at NRAO with Kenneth I. Kellermann, length of interview: 75 minutes.

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

van der Laan, Harry

Audio cassette tape

75 minutes

How both got into radio astronomy as graduate students, 1959-63 at Cal Tech and 1959-63 at Cambridge, radio sources - identifications (especially quasars), theories, spectra and structure and time variations (1965+), Kellermann's Parkes observations of planets, first American VLBI work, comments on Ryle and the Cambridge group and rivalry with Cal Tech.

1975-03-19

No working file.

Working Files Series

Individuals Unit

See Kellermann, Kenneth I. [Interview Date: March 19, 1985] for audio and transcript of this interview.