Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 5: As Presented at the Xviith General Assembly of the Iau, 1979

ISBN-13: 9789027711472 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 868 str.

Patrick A. Wayman

Opis

The scientific meetings of the AU are the AU Symposia, AU Colloquia, Regional Meetings in Astronomy held under the auspices of the AU, the Commission Meetings, which may be Joint Meetings of Commissions, and AU Joint Discussions. This variety means that almost any demand for a meeting can be provided for by the AU structure, pro vided it is international in character, whatever may be the preferences of the proposers. The AU General Assemblies include Co ssion Meetings and Joint Discussions arranged by Commissions, together with the Invited Discourses, and it is these meetings that feature in this volume. The administrative work of the General Assembly is reported in the Transactions of the AU and the Proceedings of the AU Symposia, held in the host country or neighbouring countries during the year of a General Assembly, appear in the AU Symposium Volume series. AU Collo quium volumes are published separately. The Invited Discourses are a popular feature of the AU General Assemblies and each of the three discourses presented at the XVIIth General Assembly in Montreal in 1979 appear in this volume. 1979 was the Centenary Year of the birth of Albert Einstein and the occasion was marked, for the AU, by a discourse of great distinction from Professor S. Chandrasekhar of the University of Chicago, whose contri butions to astrophysics themselves cover fully a half-century. The Invited Discourse by G. Herzberg of the National Research Council of Canada, a Nobel Prizewinner, was equally notable as an AU occasion."

Spis treści

Invited Discourses & A Selected Paper.- The Interplay of Molecular Spectroscopy and Astronomy.- Stellar Evolution and Close Binaries.- The Role of General Relativity in Astronomy: Retrospect and Prospect.- Scientific Need for Space Astronomy (presented to Commission 44).- Joint Discussions.- Joint Commission Meetings.- Author Index.