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Report on the Progress in Stellar Evolution to 1950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A ([email protected])

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At a joint meeting of the American Astronomical Society and the American Physical Society held in June of 1940, the University of Michigan astronomer Dean McLaughlin (1940) gave a review of the current understanding of stellar evolution. At the end he somewhat facetiously remarked that, “For several years I have told students that I knew all about stellar evolution in 1923, less is 1925, and nothing at all since 1930.” I would like to suggest that those dates were not chosen randomly, and in the first part of my own survey of stellar evolution to 1950, I would like to explain the significance of those dates.

Type
Session 1: History of the Concept of Stellar Populations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 164: Stellar Populations , 1995 , pp. 3 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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