James E. Keeler: Pioneer American Astrophysicist : And the Early Development of American Astrophysics
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521265827
ISBN-13
9780521265829
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 1984
Print length
423 Pages
Weight
81 grams
Product Classification:
History of science
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The biography of James E. Keeler (1857-1900), the leading astronomical spectroscopist of his generation.
This is the biography of James E. Keeler (1857–1900), a distinguished pioneer of astrophysics, the application of the methods of physics to understanding the nature of the stars, nebulae, planets, comets, and other objects that populate the universe. Keeler was an outstanding scientist, and his fellow astronomers and physicists at the end of the nineteenth century considered him the leading astronomical spectroscopist of his generation. His career was closely linked with that of George Ellery Hale, founder of Yerkes Observatory. Keeler himself was the first astronomer at Lick Observatory, and the story of his life tells much of the early history of these two early American ''big-science'' research institutions.
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