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The World of Galaxies - Proceedings of the Conference "Le Monde des Galaxies" Held 12-14 April 1988 at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris in Honor of Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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The World of Galaxies - Proceedings of the Conference "Le Monde des Galaxies" Held 12-14 April 1988 at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris in Honor of Gerard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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From 12 April to 14 April 1988, 120 of Gerard and Antoinette de
Vaucouleurs's friends and colleagues gathered at the Institut d'
Astrophysique in Paris to cel ebrate Gerard's 70th birthday and his
remarkable career in Astronomy. The gathering also honored the
memory of Antoinette (who died 29 August 1987 after a long illness)
and her own no less remarkable career. This volume collects the 24
invited review papers and the 60 contributed poster papers
presented at the meeting. Gerard de Vaucouleurs Gerard de
Vaucouleurs was born on 25 April 1918 in Paris, where he spent his
boyhood. He became an active amateur astronomer in the early
1930's, making extensive observations of Mars, Jupiter, and
variable stars (including the bright supernova of 1937 in IC 4182).
He also began life-long interests in astronomical photography and
galaxy cataloguing during this period. In 1939, he met the director
of the Paris transport system and an equally avid amateur
astronomer, Julien Peridier. De Vaucouleurs worked at Peridier's
private observatory at Le Houga in southwestern France on and off
throughout the next decade. His undergraduate work was in
mathematics, astronomy, and experimental physics; this, combined
with his interest in observational astronomy, formed his life-long
empirical approach to science. After spending 18 months in the
French army early in 1939 - 41, Gerard returned to the Peridier
observatory and then, in 1943, to his studies at the Sorbonne,
where he met Antoinette."
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