Book ID: CBB001551816

Mt. Stromlo Observatory: From Bush Observatory to the Nobel Prize (2013)

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Bhathal, R. S. (Author)
Sutherland, Ralph (Author)
Butcher, Harvey R. (Author)


CSIRO Publishing


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xiv + 330 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

This book tells the story of the Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra which began with W.G. Duffield's idealism and vision in 1905. The Observatory began life as a government department, later becoming an optical munitions factory producing gun sights and telescopes during the Second World War, before changing its focus to astrophysics--the new astronomy. In the ensuing years programs were introduced to push the Observatory in new directions at the international frontiers of astronomy. The astronomers built new, better and larger telescopes to unravel the secrets of the universe. There were controversies, exciting new discoveries and new explanations of phenomena that had been discovered. The Observatory and its researchers have contributed to determining how old the universe is, participated in the largest survey of galaxies in the universe, and helped to show us that the universal expansion is accelerating--research that led to Brian Schmidt and his international team being awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. These and other major discoveries are detailed in this fascinating book about one of the great observatories in the world.

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Authors & Contributors
Roberto Battiston
Altamore, Aldo
W.S.G. Walker
Bonnie McClellan-Broussard
Edward P. J. van den Heuvel
E. Budding
Concepts
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Astronomical observatories
Physics
Instruments, astronomical
Cosmology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Australia
United States
France
Sydney (Australia)
Ukraine
Netherlands
Institutions
Mount Stromlo Observatory (Australia)
Stardome Observatory
Observatório Astronómico de Coimbra
Coimbra. Universidade
Auckland, University of
Observatoire de Paris
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