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Cosmical Magnetism (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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Cosmical Magnetism (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Series: NATO Science Series C, 422
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Prof. Leon Mestel has been an inspiration to many to study the role
of magnetism in the Cosmos. To mark the occasion of his retin'ment
from the University of Sussex after 43 years in astrophysics,
several of his friends and former students decided to hold an
advanced research workshop in his honour. NATO agreed to finance
this venture which was held at the Institute of Astronomy at
Cambridge. The scientific organizing committee was J. Landstreet,
D. Lynden-Bell, F. Pacini, M.A. Rud0rman and N.O. Weiss and most
leading experts on Cosmical magnetism agreed to come. We are
particularly grateful to Lyman Spitzer who, ably helped by his wife
Doreen, !!;ave the after dinner addre~s on how the goddess
Astrophysica had foreseen Leon's achievements in classical Greek
times. Not without regret we decided to maintain the homog0neity of
the material and therefore could not cover Leon Mestel's major
achievements in non-magnetic astronomy. His work on the cooling of
white dwarfs, his understanding that degenerate hydrogen was a
nuclear explosive since its pressure was almost independent of
temperature and hence, his picture of supernovae, which is now more
commonly applied to novae, his seminal understanding of the 'law'
of galactic rotation and his work on the non-linear development of
t hp anisotropies generated in gravitational collapse.
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