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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Growing up in Oegstgeest
• Kapteyn and Groningen
• Stars of High Velocity
• Via Yale to Leiden
• Rotation of the Galaxy; Marriage- Galactic Structures and Dynamics
• The Oort Limit and Galaxy Photometry
• Professor and Adjunct-Director
• World War II: The Watershed
• Opening Up New Avenues
• Spiral Structure, Interstellar Medium and the Crab
• Dwingeloo, ESO, the Vatican and the Cross-Antenna
• Galactic Structure and the Dwingeloo Telescope
• Westerbork, Retirement and Beyond
• 15. The Last Horizon
• Curriculum Vitae, Publications, Honors, Students and Academic Genealogy
• Texts of Selected Documents
• Notes and References
• Index.