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Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

Heck, Andre

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Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Book 256

Medical ReferenceTechnology & EngineeringHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 9401037930
ISBN13: 9789401037938
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 8 2012
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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