Interview with Ludwig H.C. Biermann

Ludwig H. C. Biermann, 1907-1986. Interviewed 15 September 1978 by telephone from Groningen to Munich, length of interview: 24 minutes.

Papers of Woodruff T. Sullivan III

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Oral History

Sullivan, Woodruff T., III

Biermann, Ludwig H. C.

Audio cassette tape

24 minutes

1940+ interest in radio astronomy (but publications 1955+) and theoretical work on plasma oscillations and synchrotron emission in solar bursts, radio sources, and galactic background; early German solar radio astronomy observations, including claimed World War II monitoring of sun by Kiepenhauer and Wille (he will check).

1978-09-15

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