An Experience to be Remembered

Details An Experience to be Remembered An Experience to be Remembered

May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aas...194.4302t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #43.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.883

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In August 1960 the 106th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society took place in Mexico City (it was the first time such a meeting took place in Mexico). There were 80 technical papers presented. A highlight of the meeting was the Russell Memorial lecture, given by Martin Schwarzschild, of Princeton University Observatory; Schwarzschild spoke on convection in stars. A public lecture was given by Donald H. Menzel, director of Harvard Observatory. Among the social activities were the banquet at Chapultepec Castle and a visit to Observatorio Astrofísico de Tonantzintla. I was an undergraduate in Physics associated with the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional. My job was to assist with the projection of lantern slides (heavy 3 1/4" by 4" glass mounted films). It was an extraordinary experience to meet, in the flesh, authors of textbooks I was reading and to witness the scientific presentations and heated arguments that took place around them. This meeting indeed marked my life, because it was then that I decided to become a professional astronomer.

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