Observatories -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Interview with Arthur Scott Murrell, September 28, 1999, Interview 3, 1999 September 28, 2006 May 16
Item
Identifier: NMSUrgt0690
Abstract
Interview with Arthur Scott Murrell on his relationship with astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto. Murrell talks about working for the Physical Science Laboratory at New Mexico State University and several telescope installations that he worked on with Tombaugh in the 1950s and 1960s, including one in Quito, Ecuador in 1957 and at New Mexico State University in the mid 1960s.
Dates:
1999 September 28; Digitization: 2006 May 16