[mesa-users] An interview with Rudolf Kippenhahn

[Warrick Ball]

Hi everyone,

I apologize if this is deemed off topic but I found it too interesting not 
to share with fellow stellar modellers.  I stumbled across the catalogue 
of interviews held by the American Institute of Physics and paged through 
the list of interviewees.  The collection includes an interview with 
Rudolf Kippenhahn from 1978, in which he talks at some length about what 
stellar modelling was like roughly between 1955 and 1970.

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/5091

I'm tempted to quote long tracts but once he gets into discussing 
his work in stellar modelling (about 1/4 of the way in) it's all 
interesting.  There are other interviews in the collection I haven't got 
to yet (including several with Martin Schwarzschild).

Anyway, I enjoyed reading Kippenhahn's account.  I hope someone else here 
will too!

Cheers,
Warrick


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Warrick Ball
Postdoc, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen
wball at astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de
+49 (0) 551 39 5069