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Stellar Populations - Proceedings of the 164th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in the Hague, The Netherlands, August 15-19, 1994 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Stellar Populations - Proceedings of the 164th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in the Hague, The Netherlands, August 15-19, 1994 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: International Astronomical Union Symposia, 164
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The concept of Stellar Populations has played a fundamental role in
astronomy in the last few decades. It was introduced by Walter
Baade after he was able to resolve the Andromeda Nebula and its
companions into stars when he used red-sensitive plates and
realised that there were two fundamentally different
Herzsprung-Russell diagrams in our and these nearby galaxies
(common stars in the solar neighborhood versus globular clusters).
This result was published in two papers in 1944 in volume 100 of
the Astrophysical Journal. Subsequent research gave the concept a
much firmer basis and at the famous Vatican Symposium of 1957
resulted in a general scheme of the concept and a working
hypothesis for idea's on the formation and evolution of the Galaxy.
This has been a guiding principle of studies of our and other
galaxies for decades. Some years ago it seemed to us appropriate to
commemorate Baade's seminal work in 1994, when it would have its
50-th anniversary, and to review its present status and also its
role in contempory understanding. While we were in Leiden for an
administrative committee, we discussed the matter again and over
beers on October 29, 1991 we decided the take the initiative for an
IAU Symposium on the subject during the 1994 IAU General Assembly
in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
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