[mesa-users] An interview with Rudolf Kippenhahn

[Pablo Marchant]

Thanks for sharing this Warrick, very interesting indeed!

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Warrick Ball <
wball at astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

> 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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Pablo Marchant Campos
M.Sc on Astrophysics, Universidad Católica de Chile
PhD student, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie
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