Professor Zdenek Kopal is sixty-seven this year even though his
scientific activity, enthusiasm and springy step hardly betray the
ad- vancement in years. He carne to Manchester as Professor of
Astronomy thirty years ago after a very fruitful association of
fourteen years with the Harvard Observatory. Much impressed with
the young man, Harlow Shapley, who with characteristic insight had
recognised in Kopal the qualities that have since made him an
outstanding leader in ec1ipsing binary research, had invited him
over as a Research Associate. In the subsequent decade Kopal set
about the task of introducing analytical rigour in the solution of
orbit al elements that hitherto had depended ex- c1usively on the
semigraphical procedures introduced by Russell and exploited fully
by Shapley. These first efforts stimulated publication of the first
of his many books on ec1ipsing variables; the Introductian ta the
Study of Ec/ipsing Variables summarized these iterative methods and
remains a c1assic in this field. Soon after the appearance of this
volume in print, Kopal gave a course on this subject for the
graduate students at Harvard. I was one of those who had the
opportunity to attend it and learn much on the need of care and
precision in the practice of photoelectric photometry and the
importance of exploiting such data to the fullest extent with
methods of increasing resolving power.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer
|
| Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
| Series: |
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 91 |
| Release date: |
October 2011 |
| First published: |
1981 |
| Foreword by: |
M. K. V. Bappu
|
| Editors: |
F. D. Kahn
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
462 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-9400985360 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Astronomy, space & time >
General
|
| LSN: |
9400985363 |
| Barcode: |
9789400985360 |
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