Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jahh....6..107l&link_type=abstract
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 107 - 119 (2003).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Detroit Observatory, Lamont-Hussey Observatory, Mcmath-Hulbert Observatory, University Of Michigan, W.J. Hussey, R.H. Curtiss, R. Rossiter, D. Mclaughlin, H. Losh, H.D. Curtis, R. Mcmath, L. Goldberg
Scientific paper
The University of Michigan astronomy programme, in research and teaching, was in terrible shape when W.J. Hussey returned to revive it in 1905. With support from the administration and an old friend, Hussey built a new, astrophysical observatory and planned a southern station to pursue his double star campaign. His successor, Ralph Hamilton Curtiss, developed a school of astronomical spectroscopy and saw the southern station, the Lamont-Hussey Observatory, in full operation. After Ralph Curtiss' early death, Heber Curtis continued, nurtured the McMath-Hulbert Observatory and wedded it to the Unoversity, and obtained the pyrex disk for a 2.49-m (98-inch) reflector. The Great Depression deprived the Ann Arbor programme of its momentum, but after World War II a new Director, Leo Goldberg, made the Department a formidable presence in American astronomical research and training.
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