Jan Hendrik Oort : master of the galactic system / Pieter C. van der Kruit.
Kruit, Pieter C. van der, author.
2019
QB36.O578 K78 2019
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Title Jan Hendrik Oort : master of the galactic system / Pieter C. van der Kruit.
Author Kruit, Pieter C. van der, author.
ISBN 9783030178017 (electronic book)
3030178013 (electronic book)
9783030178000
3030178005
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-17
Call Number QB36.O578 K78 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 520.92
Summary This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area of science and on the efforts and contribution of his native country. This book aims at describing Oort's life and works in the context of the development of his branch of science and as a tribute to a great scientist in a broader sense. The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort from the Netherlands was founder of studies of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way Galaxy, initiator of radioastronomy and the European Southern Observatory, and an important contributor to many areas of astronomy, from the study of comets to the universe on the largest scales.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2019).
Series Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 459.
Available in Other Form Jan Hendrik Oort : Master of the Galactic System.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Growing up in Oegstgeest
Kapteyn and Groningen
Stars of High Velocity
Via Yale to Leiden
Rotation of the Galaxy; Marriage- Galactic Structures and Dynamics
The Oort Limit and Galaxy Photometry
Professor and Adjunct-Director
World War II: The Watershed
Opening Up New Avenues
Spiral Structure, Interstellar Medium and the Crab
Dwingeloo, ESO, the Vatican and the Cross-Antenna
Galactic Structure and the Dwingeloo Telescope
Westerbork, Retirement and Beyond
15. The Last Horizon
Curriculum Vitae, Publications, Honors, Students and Academic Genealogy
Texts of Selected Documents
Notes and References
Index.

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