Papers, etc.

Papers, oral history interviews, and many photographs are at the Caltech Archives. AIP Center for History of Physics has a complete finding aid to his papers, an oral history interview, and interviews with many colleagues. He was interviewed by Kip Thorne in 1985 for Black Holes & Time Warps.

Other References: Historical

“Jesse L. Greenstein,” Engineering and Science 43, 28 (1980).

DeVorkin, David, “The Maintenance of a Scientific Institution: Otto Struve, the Yerkes Observatory, and its Optical Bureau during the Second World War,” Minerva 18, 595-623 (1980).

DeVorkin, David, Science with a Vengeance (Springer-Verlag, 1992).

Greenstein, J.L., ed., Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1970s (National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1972). [The "Greenstein Report"]

Greenstein, J.L., “Optical and Radio Astronomers in the Early Years,” in The Early Years of Radio Astronomy: Reflections Fifty Years after Jansky’s Discovery, W.T. Sullivan III, ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1984), p. 67-81.

Greenstein, J., “Oral History — Astronomy,” Engineering and Science 47, 3, 20 (1984).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “An Ancient Revisits Cosmology,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 90, 4878-81 (1993).

Greenstein, J.L., “The Early Years of Radio Astronomy at Caltech,” Australian Journal of Physics 47, 5, 555-60 (1994).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Lee Alvin Dubridge,” Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 72, 88-113 (1997).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Greenstein & Schmidt’s Study of the Physics of Quasars,” Ap.J. 525C, 1058 (1999).

Hearnshaw, J. B., The Analysis of Starlight (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1986).

McCray, Patrick, “The Contentious Role of a National Observatory,” Physics Today 56, 10, 55 (2003).

Pagel, B.E.J., “Compositions of Cool Stars,” QJRAS 11,172-87 (1970).

Prud’homme, Rachel, Interview with Jesse L. Greenstein (1983)
http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/archive/00000051/

Struve, Otto, “Photography of the Counterglow,” Sky & Telescope 10, 215-18 (1951).

Thorne, Kip S., Black Holes & Time Warps (W.W. Norton, 1994).

Trimble, Virginia & J.G. Cohen, “Some Faint Stars and a Bright One – Greenstein, Jesse – Symposium on Low Luminosity Stars,” Engineering and Science 48, 4, 10 (1985).

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Other References:Scientific

Greenstein, Jesse, “An Investigation of Systematic Errors in the Tabulated Colors of Stars,” Harvard Coll. Obs. Bull. #876, 32-37 (1930).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Periods and Light Curves of the Variables in Messier 3,” Astr. Nachr. 257, 301 (1935).

Whipple, F.L. & J.L. Greenstein, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 23, 177 (1937).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & L.G. Henyey, “Some New Spectra of Galactic Nebulae,” Ap.J. 87, 79-80 (1938).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “A Determination of Selective Absorption Based on the Spectrophotometry of Reddened B Stars,” Ap.J. 87, 151-75 (1938).

Henyey, L.G. & J.L. Greenstein, “The Theory of the Colors of Reflection Nebulae,” Ap.J. 88, 580-604 (1938).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Temperatures of the Extragalactic Nebulae and the Red-Shift Correction,” Ap.J. 88, 605-17 (1938).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Spectrum of upsilon Sagittarii,” Ap.J. 91, 438-72 (1940).

Henyey, L.G. & J.L. Greenstein, “Diffuse Radiation in the Galaxy,” Ap.J. 93, 70-83 (1941).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Spectrum of alpha Carinae,” Ap.J. 95, 161-200 (1942).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Ratio of Interstellar Absorption to Reddening,” Ap.J. 104, 403-13 (1946).

Reber, Grote & Jesse L. Greenstein, “Radio-Frequency Investigations of Astronomical Interest,” Observatory 67, 15-26 (1947).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & Walter S. Adams, “High-Dispersion Spectra of Sagittarii,” Ap.J. 106, 339 (1947).

Davis, Leverett, Jr. & Jesse L. Greenstein, “The Polarization of Starlight by Interstellar Dust Particles in a Galactic Magnetic Field,” Phys. Rev. 75, 1605 (1949).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Interstellar Matter,” in Hynek, J.A., ed., Astrophysics (McGraw-Hill, NY, 1951).

Davis, Leverett, Jr. & Jesse L. Greenstein, “The Origin of Interstellar Polarization,” Astronomical Journal 55, 71 (1950).

Davis, Leverett, Jr. & Jesse L. Greenstein, “Polarization of Starlight by Aligned Dust Grains,” Ap. J. 114, 206-40 (1951).

Lyman Spitzer, Jr. & Jesse L. Greenstein, “Continuous Emission from Planetary Nebulae,” Ap. J. 114, 407-20 (1951).

Minkowski, Rudolph & Jesse L. Greenstein, “The Power Radiated by Some Discrete Sources of Radio Noise,” Ap.J. 119, 238 (1954).

Greenstein, Jesse L. “New Features in the Spectra of White Dwarfs,” Astronomical Journal 59, 322 (1954).

Oke, J.B. & Jesse L. Greenstein, “The Rotational Velocities of A-, F-, and G-Type Giant Stars,” Ap.J. 120, 384-90 (1954).

Merrill, Paul W. & Jesse L. Greenstein, “Revised List of Absorption Lines in the Spectrum of R Andromedae,” Ap.J. Supp. 2, 225-40 (1956).

Fowler, W.A., & J.L. Greenstein, “Element-Building Reactions in Stars,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 42, 173-80 (1956).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Evolution and the White Dwarfs,” PASP 68, 501 (1956).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Abundances of the Chemical Elements in the Galaxy and the Theory of Their Origin,” PASP 68, 185 (1956).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & Mildred S. Matthews, “Studies of the White Dwarfs. I. Broad Features in White Dwarf Spectra,” Ap.J. 126, 14-18 (1957).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & Willem J. Luyten, “Studies of the White Dwarfs. II. Some New White Dwarfs,” Ap.J. 126, 19-22 (1957).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Studies of the White Dwarfs. III. The Recurrent Nova WZ SGE as a Probable White Dwarf,” Ap.J. 126, 23-27 (1957).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & Philip C. Keenan, “Abundances of Metals, CN, and CH in Giant Stars,” Ap.J. 127, 172 (1958).

Helfer, H.L., G. Wallerstein, & J.L. Greenstein, “Abundances in Some Population II K Giants,” Ap.J. 129, 700 (1959) [reprinted in the centennial edition Ap.J. 525, 876 (1999) with a modern commentary by Robert P. Kraft].

Aller, Lawrence H. & Jesse L. Greenstein, “The Abundances of the Elements in G-Type Subdwarfs,” Ap.J. Supps. 5, 139 (1960).

Greenstein, Jesse L., Stellar Atmospheres (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1961).

Parker, Robert, Jesse L. Greenstein, H.L. Helfer, & George Wallerstein, “Abundances in G Dwarf Stars.IV. a Redetermination of the Abundances in G Dwarfs in the Hyades,” Ap.J. 133, 101-06 (1961).

Kraft, Robert P., Jon Mathews, & Jesse L. Greenstein, “Binary Stars among Cataclysmic Variables. II. Nova WZ Sagittae: A Possible Radiator of Gravitational Waves,” Ap.J. 136, 312-314 (1962).

Greenstein, Jesse L, & Thomas A. Matthews, “Red-Shift of the Unusual Radio Source: 3C 48,” Nature 197, 1041-42 (1963).

Wallerstein, George & Jesse L. Greenstein, “The Chemical Composition of Two CH Stars, HD 26 and HD 201626,” Ap.J. 139, 1163-79 (1964).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & Maarten Schmidt, “The Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources 3C 48 and 3C 273,” Ap.J. 140, 1-34 (1964) [reprinted in the centennial edition Ap.J. 525, 1021 (1999) with a modern commentary by Jesse L. Greenstein].

Eggen, Olin & J.L. Greenstein, “Spectra, Colors, Luminosities, and Motions of the White Dwarfs,” Ap.J. 141, 83 (1965), 142, 925 (1965), 150, 927 (1967).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & Virginia L. Trimble, “The Einstein Redshift in White Dwarfs,” Ap.J. 149, 283 (1967), 175, L1 (1972), 177, 441 (1972).

Greenstein, Jesse L., G. Neugebauer, & E.E. Becklin, “The Faint End of the Main Sequence,” Ap.J. 161, 519 (1970).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & Anneila Sargent, “The Nature of Faint Blue Stars in the Halo. II,” Ap.J. Supp. 28, 157-209 (1974).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Multichannel Spectrophotometry and the Luminosities of White Dwarfs,” Astronomical Journal 81, 323-38 (1976).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Degenerate Stars with Helium Atmospheres,” Ap.J. 210, 524-32 (1976).

Greenstein, Jesse L., A. Boksenberg, R. Carswell, & K. Shortridge,“The Rotation and Gravitational Redshift of White Dwarfs,” Ap.J. 212, 186-97 (1979).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Degenerate Stars with Hydrogen Atmospheres. I,” Ap.J. 233, 239-52 (1979).

Greenstein, J.L., “Masses, Radii, Temperatures, Luminosities and Surface Compositions of White Dwarfs,” in Van Horn, H.M., V. Weidemann, eds., White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars:Proceedings of the Colloquium, July 30-August 2, 1979 and Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Novae, Dwarf Novae and Other Cataclysmic Variables, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., August 3, 1979 (Univ. Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 1979), p. 1.

Greenstein, Jesse L, “Comparison of Stellar Observations and the Theory of Nucleosynthesis,” Essays in Nuclear Astrophysics: Presented to William A. Fowler, on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday edited by C.A. Barnes, D.D. Clayton, D.N. Schramm (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & NY, 1982), p. 45.

Greenstein, Jesse L., “Spectrophotometry of the White Dwarfs,” Ap.J. 276, 602-20 (1984).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The White-Dwarf Color-Luminosity Relation and Its Intrinsic Width, ”PASP 97, 827-34 (1985).

Greenstein, Jesse L., “The Frequency of Hydrogen White Dwarfs as Observed at High Signal to Noise Ratio,” Ap.J. 304, 334-55 (1986).

Greenstein, Jesse L. & James W. Liebert, “Spectrophotometry of white dwarfs as observed at high signal-to-noise ratio. II,” Ap.J. 360, 662-84 (1990).

Wesemael, F., et al, “An Atlas of Optical Spectra of White-dwarf Stars,” PASP 105, 761-78 (1993).

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Other Works: Popularizations, History, etc.

Greenstein, Jesse L, “The NSF and Astronomy, ”Sky & Telescope 12, 282 (1953).

Greenstein, Jesse L, “More About the NSF and Astronomy, ”Sky & Telescope 13, 291 (1954).

National Research Council Astronomy Survey Committee, Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1970s (National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1972-73) [The “Greenstein Report”].

Greenstein, Jesse L, “Perspectives on Space Astronomy, ”Sky & Telescope 64, 317 (1982).

Greenstein, Jesse L, “Pioneers Remembered - Exploration of Upper Atmosphere, ”Sky & Telescope 65, 206 (1983).

Greenstein, Jesse L, “Photographic Spectra of White Dwarfs, ”Sky & Telescope 72, 349 (1986).

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