Jan Hendrik Oort Master of the Galactic System /

• Main Author: van der Kruit, Pieter C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 459
• Subjects: Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; History.; Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 are...