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THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
OF THE PACIFIC
“111th ANNUAL MEETING”
HISTORY SESSIONS
Presented by the ASP History Committee
HISTORY I: Amateur Contributions to Astronomy
Sunday, 4 July 1999, University of Toronto
INVITED LECTURES
9:00 GETTING ORGANIZED: U.S. AMATEUR ASTRONOMY FROM 1860 TO 1985
Thomas R. Williams, Rice University
9:40 CONFIDENCE AND DEFERENCE: THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RASC
Peter Broughton, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
10:20 Break
10:40 PETER MILLMAN'S ARMY:
AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS IN CANADIAN METEOR PROGRAMMES
Richard A. Jarrell, York University
11:20 GROTE REBER: PIONEER OF RADIO ASTRONOMY
Kenneth I. Kellermann, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
12:00 Break
HISTORY II: General History of Astronomy
Sunday, 4 July 1999, University of Toronto
INVITED LECTURES
1:30 (cancelled)
2:10 CANADIAN ASTRONOMERS WITH EARLY HARVARD PH.D. ’S
Dorritt Hoffleit, Yale University
2:50 Break
3:10 THE GREAT INSTRUMENTS OF THE GRUBB TELESCOPE-MAKING DYNASTY
John W. Briggs, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago
3:50 “A SPRING OF WATER IN A DRY AND THIRSTY LAND”: WILLIAM HUGGINS AND THE ORIGINS OF ASTROPHYSICS
Barbara Becker, WestEd and University of California, Irvine
HISTORY III: General History of Astronomy
Sunday, 4 July 1999 (all day), University of Toronto
DISPLAY PRESENTATIONS
THE FOUR COLLEGE CONSORTIUM - DEVELOPING AUTOMATED PHOTOMETRY
Robert J. Dukes, Jr., College of Charleston;
Saul J. Adelman, The Citadel; George McCook, Villanova University;
Diane Pyper Smith, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
ASTRONOMY ON ICE
Kitty Ferguson
Presented by the ASP History Committee
Katherine Bracher, Whitman College
Roy Garstang, University of Colorado
Richard A. Jarrell, York University
E.C. Krupp, Griffith Observatory
Donald E. Osterbrock, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joseph S. Tenn, Sonoma State University (chair)
Craig B. Waff, Encyclopedia Americana
Barbara Welther, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Thomas R. Williams, Rice University
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