[mesa-users] An interview with Rudolf Kippenhahn

[Chris Mankovich]

>
> I must have visited Berkeley again, in 1965, because I remember Henyey in
> front of the computer, with a man whose name I’ve forgotten, who published
> on mass loss of red giants later. I forget his name but I probably could
> reconstruct this. They were sitting in front of the computer, and once in a
> while the computer printed numbers, and they had an H-R diagram and plotted
> a dot. This I really would like to have — sitting in front of a computer,
> just draws an evolutionary track — compared to all that we had done before,
> in my experience, five hours to integrate inwards and see how the fit is.


Anybody else thankful for mesa + pgstar?!


chris

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Pablo Marchant <pamarca at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> PhD student, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie
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