Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)

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."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 256
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2000
Editors:	Andre Heck
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	221
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
ISBN-13:	978-9401037938
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	9401037930
Barcode:	9789401037938

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