Interview with Arthur Scott Murrell, August 4, 1999, Interview 1, 1999 August 4, 2006 May 16

Item

Identifier: NMSUrgt0685

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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 August 4
Digitization: 2006 May 16

Creator

Beebe, Herb (Interviewer, Person)

Digital Repository

Interview with Arthur Scott Murrell, August 4, 1999, Interview 1

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