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Techies, thinkers and tinkerers: Why CFHT became a world-class telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2011

Liz Bryson
Liz Bryson*
Affiliation:
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, 65-1238 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, Hawaii 96743, USA email: bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu
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Abstract

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Following the celebrated DVD, Gathering the Forgotten Voices, we have embarked on new interviews of the men and women whose hard work and ingenuity forged the technological breakthroughs that maintained CFHT's preeminence as a world-class observatory. While Gathering the Forgotten Voices emphasized the personal history of those involved with the first decade of deep-space observing, the new DVD explores the CFHT innovation in instrumentation from vision through design to construction. It will chronicle the breakthroughs of the observatory's staff so that that record may serve as a prototype for qualitative research at other technological centers.

Keywords

Oral historyobservatoriestelescopesMauna KeaHawaii
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S260: The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture , January 2009 , pp. 570 - 576
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

References

Bryson, L. 2007, in Library and Information Services in Astronomy V, Ricketts, S., Birdie, C. and Isaksson, E. (eds), ASP Conference Series, Vol. 377 (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), p. 350Google Scholar