Add to ORKGI cover my life and career, first in Holland during World War II and then in Pasadena, California, after we emigrated in 1959. My main work concerned the rate of star formation and the discovery of quasars and their cosmological evolution. It’s a great honor to write an essay for this volume of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. It is primarily an autobiography with an attempt to link my own career to some of the major developments in astronomy
The volume forms a part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the invention of the telescop...
This book is a collection of engaging and intriguing essays that describe an intellectual journey fr...
• Tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research• May be rocket science, ...
I cover my life and career, first in Holland during World War II and then in Pasadena, California, ...
I was born in 1914 in Amsterdam. I grew up there, filling my teenage years with activities as an ama...
This invited memoir looks back on my scientific career that straddles the solar and stellar branches...
People write history although never certain what the future could learn from the past. Professional...
When asked to write a summary of my professional life, I had no notion of how difficult it would be...
This highly personal account of evolution of cosmology spans a period of approximately six decades 1...
I attempt to summarize the excitement of my role primarily in the early years of X-ray Astronomy. As...
This is an autobiographical account of my scientific career. My main research interest is the struct...
This book is an informal, semi-autobiographical history, from the particular viewpoint of someone wh...
Between 1893 and 1941, the understanding of the Milky Way galaxy within the American culture changed...
pacs number: 9710Ex This article is an expanded version of a talk given at a special session of the ...
The field of Order and Chaos had a remarkable expansion in the last 50 years. The main reason was th...
The volume forms a part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the invention of the telescop...
This book is a collection of engaging and intriguing essays that describe an intellectual journey fr...
• Tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research• May be rocket science, ...
I cover my life and career, first in Holland during World War II and then in Pasadena, California, ...
I was born in 1914 in Amsterdam. I grew up there, filling my teenage years with activities as an ama...
This invited memoir looks back on my scientific career that straddles the solar and stellar branches...
People write history although never certain what the future could learn from the past. Professional...
When asked to write a summary of my professional life, I had no notion of how difficult it would be...
This highly personal account of evolution of cosmology spans a period of approximately six decades 1...
I attempt to summarize the excitement of my role primarily in the early years of X-ray Astronomy. As...
This is an autobiographical account of my scientific career. My main research interest is the struct...
This book is an informal, semi-autobiographical history, from the particular viewpoint of someone wh...
Between 1893 and 1941, the understanding of the Milky Way galaxy within the American culture changed...
pacs number: 9710Ex This article is an expanded version of a talk given at a special session of the ...
The field of Order and Chaos had a remarkable expansion in the last 50 years. The main reason was th...
The volume forms a part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the invention of the telescop...
This book is a collection of engaging and intriguing essays that describe an intellectual journey fr...
• Tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research• May be rocket science, ...