Stellar populations. Proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Science and the Vatican Observatory, May 20-28, 1957

Book Description

Amsterdam & New York:: North Holland Publishing & Interscience Publishers. 1958. hardcover. 2. 8vo. lxv, 544 pp. Red cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; spine rubbed. Ink signature of H.A. Bruck on ffep. Very good. . Provenance: Dr. Hermann A. Bruck (1905-2000), seventh Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Upon graduation from Munich, Bruck followed his friend Albrecht Unsold to the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory. With growing difficulties under National Socialism, Bruck left Germany in 1936 to take a temporary research assistantship at the Vatican Observatory. In 1937 he moved to the University of Cambridge to join the circle of the modern astrophysicists around Arthur Eddington. In time, Bruck became Assistant Director of the Observatories and John Couch Adams Astronomer, specializing in solar spectroscopy.

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