Research Catalog

Title

Remembering Edith Alice Müller / edited by I. Appenzeller [and others].

Publication

Boston, Mass : Kluwer Academic, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Müller, Edith Alice.
• Appenzeller, I. (Immo), 1940-

Description

147 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 222

Uniform Title

Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 222.

Subjects

• Müller, Edith Alice
• Women astronomers > Switzerland > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Jean-Claude Pecker -- Edith Alice Muller, Short biography / Yves Chmielewski -- The life of Edith A. Muller: Personal and professional aspects / Rosmarie Frey -- Meeting with Edith Muller / Fritz Egger -- Starting with the Sun and Edith Muller / Paul Wild -- I knew Edith for nearly half a century / Cornelis de Jager -- From Zurich to the IAU ... Laughs and duties / Jean-Claude Pecker -- Edith in Cambridge and Ireland, 1951 / Hermann Bruck and Mary T. Bruck -- From a semester in Cambridge / Bernard E. J. Pagel -- Friends in Ann Arbor / Wilfred Kaplan and Ida R. Kaplan -- The Ann Arbor Community / Donat G. Wentzel -- Coffee breaks in Ann Arbor / Guenther H. Elste -- An attractive little house / Anne P. Cowley -- From a summer school in Michigan / E. Margaret Burbidge -- Around the chemical elements / Lawrence H. Aller -- From Ann Arbor onwards / Leo Houziaux -- The right balance / Sidney Van den Bergh -- Back to Switzerland at Geneva / Marcel Golay --
• The privilege of having been EAM's collaborator / Yves Chmielewski -- The solar Lithium story / Ramiro de la Reza -- At Tucson, looking at the solar system / William C. Livingston -- Remembering Edith Alicia / Felix Llorente de Andres -- From the solar iron abundance to the Secretariat of the IAU / J. P. Swings -- Kitt Peak, MacMath, the Sun and JOSO / Jan O. Stenflo -- From one JOSO to another / Brigitte Schmieder -- Edith back in Andalusia / Emilio J. Alfaro -- Montreal, the Joch, the Canaries / Rene Dumont and Simone Dumont -- How the entropy is increasing / William E. Howard III -- The IAU tribute to Edith A. Muller / Andre Maeder -- One great Lady astronomer / Anne B. Underhill -- A legendary polyglot ... and lovely days / John T. Jefferies -- From one GS of the IAU to another / George Contopoulos -- Edith Muller, General Secretary of the IAU / Patrick Wayman -- From one G.A. to another / Derek McNally -- Edith and the IAU : one big family / Alan H. Batten --
• Edith Muller at work on the planets / Audouin Dollfus -- Painful memories and welcome sight at Geneva / Kath Giovanelli -- Teaching astronomy : Edith Muller and the IAU / Cecylia Iwaniszewska -- Edith A. Muller and IAU commission 46 / John R. Percy -- Astronomy in education ... and Swiss watches / Evry Schatzman -- Brief encounters, here and there / Edward V. Kononovitch -- My Science Mother / K. Sinha -- Do I remember Edith Muller? / Peter B. Boyce -- Tchaikovsky, Pushkin, ... and the Sun / V. L. Khokhlova -- Edith Muller in Abastumani / E. K. Kharadze -- Drinking tea in Georgia / Brigitte Manning -- From our first meeting, she confided in me / Yaroslav S. Yastkiv -- Edith and the giant radiotelescope / Govind Swarup -- From "down under" / Peter R. Wilson -- In Geneva, one day / Alla G. Massevich -- Edith Muller missed in Japan / Yoshihide Kozai.

ISBN

0792347897 (hardbound : alk. paper)

LCCN

97048764

OCLC

• 504097298
• ocn504097298

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries