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This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area of science and on the efforts and contribution of his native country. This book aims at describing Oort's life and works in the context of the development of his branch of science and as a tribute to a great scientist in a broader sense. The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort from the Netherlands was founder of studies of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way Galaxy, initiator of radioastronomy and the European Southern Observatory, and an important contributor to many areas of astronomy, from the study of comets to the universe on the largest scales.… (meer)
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I tried to imagine the situation of a historian of natural sciences, working some time in the twenty-first century on a monograph describing Jan Oort's scientific importance. If successful, this historian would have covered in his monograph a very substantial portion of the history of astronomy in our century.
Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (1908-1987)
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922), whom Oort described as 'mijn inspireerenden leermeester', and to my wife Corry for her love, understanding and support.
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In 1981, Jan Hendrik Oort, then at age 81, published an invited autobiographical essay as introductory article in the 'Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics', AnnRev81, with the title Some notes on my life as an astronomer (Oort 1981e).
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
We have joined the caravan, you might say, at a certain point; we will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or learn all that we hunger to know.
This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area of science and on the efforts and contribution of his native country. This book aims at describing Oort's life and works in the context of the development of his branch of science and as a tribute to a great scientist in a broader sense. The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort from the Netherlands was founder of studies of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way Galaxy, initiator of radioastronomy and the European Southern Observatory, and an important contributor to many areas of astronomy, from the study of comets to the universe on the largest scales.
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