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The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory: the Project Scientist's Perspective

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2015-05-18 v1

Abstract

We review the history of the development of the Chandra X-ray Observatory from our personal perspective. This review is necessarily biased and limited by space since it attempts to cover a time span approaching 5 decades.

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@article{arxiv.1003.1990,
  title  = {The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory: the Project Scientist's Perspective},
  author = {Martin C. Weisskopf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1990},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 17 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.