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