Thomas R. Williams, Michael Saladyga

Gebundenes Buch

Advancing Variable Star Astronomy

Beschreibung

As the definitive history of the AAVSO, this text will interest amateur and professional astronomers, historians and sociologists alike.

Autor

Tom Williams is the AAVSO Historian and has served in AAVSO leadership positions for over 20 years, including twice as president. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Rice University in 2000, after spending over thirty years as an industrial chemist and manufacturing manager. Since then, Dr Williams has served as a senior editor for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Springer, 2007) and has written forty-three entries for that work. Over the past twenty-five years he has published book chapters, encyclopedia entries and over thirty articles and book reviews.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1180g
• ISBN-13: 9780521519120
• ISBN-10: 0521519128
• Artikelnr.: 32874547