Lettau, Heinz, 2002-03-10

Oral history interview with Heinz Lettau, 2002. Interviewed by Sharon Nicholson. 7 sound cassettes (ca. 10 hrs.) : analog, mono + transcript (102 pgs.). AMS 171-177; one physical version (one master). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Topics include: early life, family, interest in science, education, World War I, Heisenberg, Kate Lettau, the Livsic School of Meteorology, pendulum and salt mine experiments, ballooning, World War II, time as a POW in Washington DC, re-education after the war, moving to America, German mistakes in forecasting during the war, and spying.