DeVorkin, David H. (Author)
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 2018
Language: English
Physical Details: 401
From the Preface: "This book explores the forces and drives that brought two astronomical institutions together -- the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts -- to become the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the early 1970s."
...MoreReview Ronald E. Doel (2019) Review of "Fred Whipple's Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955-1973". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 375-376).
Review James Spiller (2019) Review of "Fred Whipple's Empire: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955-1973". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 862-863).
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