Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...209.5105t&link_type=abstract
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #51.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Yale's was the first copy of the Principia to arrive in America, and astronomy was sporadically taught there from the 1740s onward. Perhaps this extended tradition was a contributing factor in the long and somewhat troubled transition from nearly-pure emphasis on "the old astronomy" of positions, proper motions, and such to "the new astronomy" or astrophysics. In an era when many departments were growing rapidly and new astrophysics PhDs were much in demand (even I received 5 offers for 1968-69, though being a small green Martian or female was not thought an advantage then), Yale managed to acquire and rapidly de-accession a remarkable number of folks of great ability, based on their later records. The habit has, perhaps, not yet been entirely overcome. Some details will be explored and some analogies drawn with another institution (Cambridge University), which experienced even greater metamorphic pains. My starting date here is the hiring of Norman Baker and Myron Lecar; the end point the arrival of Beatrice Tinsley; and I may or may not name other names.
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