An international conference entitled "Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star
Legacy" was held on the occasion of the late Professor Kopal's 90th
birthday in his home town of Litomy l/Czech Republic and dedicated
to the memory of one of the leading astronomers of the 20th
century.
Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to
the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough
in this field with his description of binary components as
non-spherical stars deformed by gravity, with surfaces following
Roche equipotentials. Such knowledge triggered the development of
new branches of astrophysics dealing with the structure and
evolution of close binaries and the interaction effects displayed
by exciting objects such as cataclysmic variables, symbiotic stars
or X-ray binaries.
Contributions to this conference included praise of the
achievements of a great astronomer and personal reminiscences
brought forward by Kopal's former students and colleagues, and
reflected the state of the art of the dynamically evolving field of
binary research, which owes so much to the pioneering work of
Zdenek Kopal."
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