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100 1 $aOsterbrock, Donald E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84018139
245 10 $aYerkes Observatory, 1892-1950 :$bthe birth, near death, and resurrection of a scientific research institution /$cDonald E. Osterbrock.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1997.
300 $ax, 384 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [363]-365) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tBirth, 1868-1897 --$g2.$tInfancy, 1897-1904 --$g3.$tNear Death, 1904-1932 --$g4.$tThe Savior, 1897-1931 --$g5.$tThe Boy President, 1929-1932 --$g6.$tThe Boy Director, 1932-1936 --$g7.$tResurrection on the Campus and at Yerkes, 1893-1937 --$g8.$tBirth of McDonald Observatory, 1933-1939 --$g9.$tAn Extraordinarily Fine Group, 1936-1942 --$g10.$tWorld War II, 1939-1945 --$g11.$tGolden Years, 1945-1950 --$g12.$tEpilogue: To the Centennial, 1950-1997.
520 $aDonald E. Osterbrock tells the story of Yerkes Observatory; built a century ago by the University of Chicago as one of America's first big-science centers. Financed by robber baron Charles T. Yerkes, the observatory housed "the largest and best ... telescope in the world," and its forty-inch refracting telescope is still the largest of its kind ever used.
520 8 $aDrawing on his experiences as historian of astronomy, practicing astrophysicist, and director of Lick Observatory, Osterbrock weaves issues central to the history of astronomy into his account of Yerkes.
520 8 $aHe gives a sense of the formation, progress, and dissolution of collaborative research programs; the range of issues with which working astronomers concerned themselves; the changes in scientific practice as large, ambitious research programs demanded increasingly complicated and expensive facilities; the problems Chicago and other universities had in providing appropriate funding; and the growing role of federal in place of private support for research.
520 8 $aIllustrated with many archival photos, Osterbrock's exceptionally readable history of Yerkes is an acute biography of this renowned observatory in its centennial year and a vital addition to the history of astronomy.
610 20 $aYerkes Observatory$xHistory.
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