| Binary and Multiple Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution: Proceedings of the 69th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Bamberg Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Kopal, Zdenek (Editor), Rahe, Jürgen H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9400978634 ISBN-13: 9789400978638 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening - Science | Astronomy |
| Dewey: 520 |
| Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.86 lbs) 540 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If Zdenek Kopal Department of Astronomy University of Manchester Your Magnificences, my Lord Mayor, ladies and gentlemen It is a great pleasure for me to respond, on behalf of your foreign guests, to your gracious words of welcome; and to thank you for the wonderful reception which you nave extended to us. The city of Bamberg and its Remeis Sternwarte nas indeed been renowned allover the world for a great many years - as the place where your Observatory's first director, Professor Ernst Hartwig (1851-1923) - in addition to his other titles to fame - collaborated (with Gustav Muller of Potsdam) on the construc- tion of the monumental Geschichte und Literatur des Lirhtwechsels der Veranderlichen Sterne, which since 1918 has (together with its sub- sequent continuation) been a veritable vade-mecum of a1l students of variable stars; where the second director, Professor Ernst Zinner (1886-19] prepared his valuable Katalog der Verdachtigen Veranderlichen Sterne (192@ which safeguarded many an astronomer (including the present speaker in the days of his innocence) from premature discovery claims; and whose third director, Professor Wolfgang Strohmeier, initiated in 1959 the tradition of the international colloquia of which ours is the latest successor. It is indeed a great pleasure to welcome Professor Strohmeier - now Emeritus - among us; and to congratulate him on the grace with which he is carrying his years. |