American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2008: Saint Louis, Mo)
Triumphs of the 20th Century Astrophysics I: Observatories and Telescopes [audiorecording], April 2008.
Audio recording of session B6 of the April 2008 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in St. Louis, Missouri. This session was sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics, chaired by Ramanath Cowsik of Washington University. Talks (and speakers) include: "Lick Observatory, California, and 20th Century Leadership in Optical Astronomy" (Virginia Trimble); "The Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope" (Mario Livio); "Large Telescopes and Instrumentation of the Future" (Elizabeth Barton).
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Astrophysics -- History
Observatories.
Physics -- History.
Physics -- History -- Congresses.
Telescopes.
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Livio, Mario, 1945-
American Physical Society.
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