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" Transactions of the International Astronomical Union "
edited by C. Jager, A. Jappel.
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BL
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579462
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b408681
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Jager, C.
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Transactions of the International Astronomical Union : Proceedings of the Fourteenth General Assembly Brighton 1970 /\ edited by C. Jager, A. Jappel.
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Dordrecht :: Springer Netherlands,, 1971.
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International Council of Scientific Unions / International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale ;; 14B
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9789401031059
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: 9789401031073
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1 -- Report of the Executive Committee 1967-69 -- 2 -- Report of the Inaugural Ceremony, 18 August 1970 -- Report of the General Assembly (with Resolutions included) -- 3 Reports of Meetings of Commissions Comptes Rendus des Séances des Commissions -- 4 Ephemerides (Ephémérides) -- 5 Documentation -- 6 Astronomical Telegrams (Té1égrammes Astronomiques) -- 7 Celestial Mechanics (Mécanique Célèste) -- 8 Positional Astronomy (Astronomie de Position) -- 9 Instruments et Techniques (Instruments and Techniques) -- 10 Solar Activity (Activité Solaire) -- 12 Radiation and Structure of the Solar Atmosphere (Radiation et Structure de l'Atmosphère Solaire) -- 14 Fundamental Spectroscopic Data (Données Spectroscopiques Fondamentales) -- 15 Physical Study of Comets (L'Étude Physique des Comètes) -- 16 Physical Study of Planets and Satellites (Étude Physique des Planètes et Satellites) -- 17 The Moon (La Lune) -- 19 Rotation de la Terre (Rotation of the Earth) -- 20 Positions and Motions of Minor Planets, Comets and Satellites (Positions et Mouvements des Petites Planètes, des Comètes et des Satellites) -- 21 Light of the Night-Sky (Luminescence du Ciel) -- 22 Meteors and Meteorites (Météors et Météorites) -- 23 Carte du Ciel -- 24 Stellar Parallaxes and Proper Motions (Parallaxes Stellaires et Mouvements Propres) -- 25 Stellar Photometry (Photométrie Stellaire) -- 26 Double Stars (Étoiles Doubles) -- 27 Variable Stars (Étoiles Variables) -- 28 Galaxies -- 29 Stellar Spectra (Spectres Stellaires) -- 30 Radial Velocities (Vitesses Radiales) -- 31 Time (L'Heure) -- 33 Structure and Dynamics of the Galactic System (Structure et Dynamique du Système Galactique) -- 34 Interstellar Matter and Planetary Nebulae (Matière Interstellaire et Nébuleuses Planétaires) -- 35 Stellar Constitution (Constitution des Étoiles) -- 36 Theory of Stellar Atmospheres (Théorie des Atmosphères Stellaires) -- 37 Star Clusters and Associations (Amas Stellaires et Associations) -- 38 Exchange of Astronomers (Échange des Astronomes) -- 40 Radio Astronomy (Radio Astronomie) -- 41 History of Astronomy (Histoire de L'Astronomie) -- 42 Photometric Double Stars (Étoiles Doubles Photométriques) -- 43 Plasmas and Magnetohydrodynamics in Astrophysics (Plasmas et magnéto-hydrodynamique en Astrophysique) -- 44 Astronomical Observations from Outside the Terrestrial Atmosphere (Observations Astronomiques au-dehors de l'Atmosphère Terrestre) -- 45 Spectral Classifications and Multi-Band Colour Indices (Classifications Spectrales et Indices de Couleur a Plusieurs Bandes) -- 46 Teaching of Astronomy (Enseignement de l'Astronomie) -- 47 Cosmology (Cosmologie) -- 48 High Energy Astrophysics (Astrophysique de Grande Énergie) -- 4 Astronomer's Handbook -- 1. I. Short History of the International Astronomical Union -- 2. Style Book -- 3. Executive Committee 1970-73.
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The changing character of the IAU General Assemblies becomes most clear from a comparison of the agenda of the Brighton meeting with that of one of the earlier meetings. The fourth General Assembly (Cambridge Mass. , 1932) had about 240 participants, registered guests included, the Brighton meeting had about 2300 people attending. The Cambridge meeting lasted 5, working days, of which, however, three half days were exclusively devoted to excursions, leaving four real meeting days. At that time the nearly 30 commissions had each only one meeting, during part of a morning or afternoon; some commissions did not meet at all. There was one public lecture, by Sir Arthur Eddington, on 'The Expanding Universe'. Most of the small European countries were represented by two or three delegates only, but the delegations of France and Great Britain were composed of 20 and 18 scientists respectively; at that time there were only two delegates from Germany. After the Brighton General Assembly, with about 200 commission meetings - one commission met eleven times! - six Joint Discussions, four Invited Discourses, a Special Meeting and hardly time for excursions, there were a few complaints about too many overlapping meetings.
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Physics.
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Jappel, A.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth General Assembly, Brighton, 1970
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