Binary and Multiple Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution : Proceedings of the 69th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Bamber

Kopal, Zdenek

ISBN 10: 9400978634 / ISBN 13: 9789400978638

Published by Springer 2011-11, 2011

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• Title: Binary and Multiple Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution : Proceedings of the 69th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Bamber
• Publisher: Springer 2011-11
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9400978634
• ISBN 13: 9789400978638
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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If Zdenek Kopal Department of Astronomy University of Manchester Your Magnificences, my Lord Mayor, ladies and gentlemen! It is a great pleasure for me to respond, on behalf of your foreign guests, to your gracious words of welcome; and to thank you for the wonderful reception which you nave extended to us. The city of Bamberg and its Remeis Sternwarte nas indeed been renowned allover the world for a great many years - as the place where your Observatory's first director, Professor Ernst Hartwig (1851-1923) - in addition to his other titles to fame - collaborated (with Gustav Muller of Potsdam) on the construc- tion of the monumental Geschichte und Literatur des Lirhtwechsels der Veranderlichen Sterne, which since 1918 has (together with its sub- sequent continuation) been a veritable vade-mecum of a1l students of variable stars; where the second director, Professor Ernst Zinner (1886-19] prepared his valuable Katalog der Verdachtigen Veranderlichen Sterne (192@ which safeguarded many an astronomer (including the present speaker in the days of his innocence) from premature discovery claims; and whose third director, Professor Wolfgang Strohmeier, initiated in 1959 the tradition of the international colloquia of which ours is the latest successor. It is indeed a great pleasure to welcome Professor Strohmeier - now Emeritus - among us; and to congratulate him on the grace with which he is carrying his years.