First Light: The Astronomy Century In California, 19172017

David DeVorkin from the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian, delivers a talk titled “Hale’s Mount Wilson as a ‘Physicist’s Testbench’.” This talk was included in the session titled “Taking the Measurement of the Stars.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.