Mt. Stromlo Observatory: From Bush Observatory to the Nobel Prize
Language: English
Published by CSIRO Publishing, 2013
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
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Laminated boards, no jacket. This book tells the story of the Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra which began with W.G.Duffield's idealism and vision in 1905. The Observatory began life as a government department, later becoming an optical munitions factory producing gun sights and telescopes during the Second World War, before changing its focus to astrophysics - the new astronomy.
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- Title
- Mt. Stromlo Observatory: From Bush Observatory to the Nobel Prize
- Author
- Ragbir Bhathal, Ralph Sutherland and Harvey Butcher
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1486300758
- ISBN 13
- 9781486300754
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1.2 kilograms
In the ensuing years programs were introduced to push the Observatory in new directions at the international frontiers of astronomy. The astronomers built new, better and larger telescopes to unravel the secrets of the universe. There were controversies, exciting new discoveries and new explanations of phenomena that had been discovered. The Observatory and its researchers have contributed to determining how old the universe is, participated in the largest survey of galaxies in the universe, and helped to show us that the universal expansion is accelerating – research that led to Brian Schmidt and his international team being awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
These and other major discoveries are detailed in this fascinating book about one of the great observatories in the world.
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About the Author
Ralph Sutherland is a Research Fellow at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University. He has published widely in international refereed journals, and has a textbook on the astrophysics of the interstellar medium.
Harvey Butcher is well known for the discovery of the Butcher-Oemler effect and the design and implementation of advanced astronomical instrumentation including LOFAR (Low Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy), one of the largest radio telescopes in the world. Before taking up the position of Director of the Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, he was the Director of the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (ASTRON). He was awarded the knighthood of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2005 for contributions to multidisciplinary science innovation and public outreach.
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