Changing Orbits: Sputnik and Me

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May 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...20918603h&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #186.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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When Sputnik was launched in the fall of 1957, I was a graduate student at Columbia University studying for my Ph.D. exams in East European history and living with my wife and two-month-old child on West 153rd Street on Manhattan. Seven months later I was a graduate student in physics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison taking undergraduate physics courses. Sputnik influenced my decision to become a physicist, and America’s response to the Soviet challenge helped me in several important ways. So did Henry H. Barschall. I will tell you some stories illustrating the Sputnik era as I saw it in those days looking up from the bottom of the hierarchy of science.

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