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Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington : Volume 1, the Mount Wilson Observatory: Breaking the Code of Cosmic Evolution

Allan Sandage; Sandage Allan
Cambridge University Press
 9780521830782
0-521-83078-8

Perched atop a mountain wilderness, the two mammoth solar tower telescopes and the 60- and 100-inch behemoth night-time reflectors of the Mount Wilson Observatory were the largest in the world, and at the center of the development of astrophysics. This book brings together the science and personal stories of those involved in the development of modern theories of stellar evolution and cosmology at the Mount Wilson Observatory. It is fully illustrated with contemporary photographs of people and instruments.