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Authors and Affiliations
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Member of the Academy of Athens, Research Centre of Astronomy, Athens, Greece
George Contopoulos
About the author
George Contopoulos, PhD U.Athens1953; Professor of Astronomy U.Thessaloniki 1957-75; U.Athens 1975-96; Emeritus 1996-; Member, Academy of Athens 1997-. Visiting Professor Yale U., Harvard U., MIT, Cornell U., U.Chicago, U.Maryland, U. Florida, Florida State U., U. Milan; Res. Associate, Yerkes Obs., Inst.Adv.Study Princeton, Inst.Space Studies, Goddard Flight Center, Columbia U., ESO. Author or Editor of 15 books, and about 250 papers on Galactic Dynamics, Relativity and Celestial Mechanics. Positions held: Gen.Secretary of the IAU; Director General Nat.Obs.of Greece, Pres.Hellenic Astron.Soc.; Nat.Representative of Greece in NATO, etc. Distinctions: Amer. Astron.Soc. Brouwer Prize; U.Chicago, Honorary Doctor's Degree; IAU, Pres. Commission 33 (Galaxy); Member Academia Europaea; Associate Royal Astron. Soc.; Chairman of the European Journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics"; Assoc. Editor of "Cel. Mech. Dyn. Astron."; Over 4500 citations and 300 acknowledgements.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adventures in Order and Chaos
Book Subtitle: A Scientific Autobiography
Authors: George Contopoulos
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3040-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3039-0Published: 14 February 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6773-9Published: 25 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3040-6Published: 21 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 200