Symposium proceedings on teaching astronomy in the 1970s.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Symposium proceedings on teaching astronomy in the 1970s.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154306312

Papers presented by the Section on Astronomy at the Chicago meeting of the AAAS, December 1970, and transcript of discussions. Speakers include: Joseph W. Chamberlain, Helmut Abt, Bart Bok, Frank Edmondson, Lawrence W. Frederick, and George O. Abell.

100 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6862678

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Edmondson, Frank K. (Frank Kelly), 1912-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs2xqs (person)

Astronomer (stellar motions, asteroids, faint stars) and administrator. On the astronomy faculty at Indiana University from 1937, including department chair, 1944-1978, and observatory director, 1945-1978; research associate, McDonald Observatory from 1941; and vice president and president, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, 1957-1965. From the description of History of AURA : interviews and documentation, 1978-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80524711 ...

Abt, Helmut A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cn766m (person)

Astronomer. Born in Germany, 1925. Research Associate, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, 1953-1955; Assistant Professor, 1955-1959; Astronomer at Kitt Peak National Observatory from 1963; became editor of The Astrophysical Journal from 1971-1999. From the description of Oral history interview with Helmut Abt, 1999 October 28 and 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80923379 ...

Chamberlain, Joseph W. (Joseph Wyan), 1928-2004

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c1zq9 (person)

Physicist and astronomer. From the description of Papers, 1952-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122610052 Joseph W. Chamberlain was born in Boonville, Missouri on August 24, 1928. He attended the University of Missouri from 1945-1949 where he received his A.B. and A.M. in physics. He then went on to the University of Michigan and gained his M.S. and Ph. D. in Astronomy in 1952. Soon afterward, he became a professor at the University of Chicago from 1955-1962. Dr. Chamber...

Abell, George O. (George Ogden), 1927-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s7pv2 (person)

Frederick, Lawrence W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k075s4 (person)

Bok, Bart J. 1906-1983.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tm7dkq (person)