Author: William Arba Ellis
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Sketches of the trustees, presidents, vice-presidents, professors, alumni, past cadets, honorary graduates and under-graduates, 1867-1915
Author: William Arba Ellis
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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The Michigan Alumnus
Author:
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In v.1-8 the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In v.1-8 the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science
Author: Richard Taibi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319445189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public’s trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier’s career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319445189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public’s trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier’s career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.
Michigan Alumnus
Author:
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
University of Virginia Alumni News
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Oberlin Alumni Magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College
Author: George Thomas Chapman
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Columbia Alumni News
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Alumni Quarterly
Author: Illinois State University
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Memorial Volume of Denison University, 1831-1906
Author: Denison University
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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