ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES IN ASTRONOMY by Andre Heck (Editor) ( 9789401037938 )

Item Details

Title:

ORGANIZATIONS AND STRATEGIES IN ASTRONOMY

By:

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£79.99
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

9401037930

ISBN 13:

9789401037938

Publisher:

SPRINGER

Pub. date:

8 October, 2012

Edition:

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000

Series:

Astrophysics and Space Science Library 256

Pages:

231

Synopsis:

Research and publications in the field of Astronomy have undergone dramatic changes in the last half-century. While activities just slowed down during World War II in the US and in Latin America, they were very strongly affected by the difficult conditions prevailing among the European belligerent nations. Half a century ago, re- search activities were mostly confined to observatories (linked or not to universities) and usually separated from the teaching of physical sciences. Hence, directors of observatories played an important role in the choice of the research fields, and "schools" of research appeared at various places, de- veloping specific instrumentation, reduction techniques and mathematical methods to achieve their scientific goals. Reorganising the research activities after the war was no minor under- taking, specially because communications were interrupted for over five years and isolated continental Europe from overseas activities. Scarcity of observing instruments (some of them being requisitioned by occupy- ing armies) , enormous gaps in the available litterature led to local research activities, conducted independently of similar efforts undertaken elsewhere.

Illustrations:

biography

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Springer

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

APPLYING FRACTALS IN ASTRONOMY (HB)

APPLYING FRACTALS IN ASTRONOMY (PB)

ASTRONOMY COMMUNICATION (HB)