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Adventures in Order and Chaos

A Scientific Autobiography

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Authors:
  1. George Contopoulos

    1. Member of the Academy of Athens, Research Centre of Astronomy, Athens, Greece

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 313)

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Table of contents (1 chapter)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Years of Study

    • George Contopoulos
    Pages 1-184

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 185-198
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About this book

For many years I was organizing a weekly seminar on dynamical astronomy, and I used to make some historical remarks on every subject, including some anecdotes from my contacts with many leading scientists over the years. I described also the development of various subjects and the emergence of new ideasindynamicalastronomy. Thenseveralpeoplepromptedmetowritedown these remarks, which cannot be found in papers, or books. Thus, I decided to write this book, which contains my experiences over the years. I hope that this book may be helpful to astronomy students all over the world. During my many years of teaching, as a visiting professor, in American Universities (1962-1994, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Chicago, Maryland and Florida) I was impressed by the quality of my graduate students. Most of them were very bright, asking penetrating questions, and preparing their homework in a perfect way. In a few cases, instead of a ?nal examination, I assigned to them some small research projects and they presented their results at the end of the course. They were excellent in preparing the appropriate slides and in presenting their results in a concise and clear way.

Authors and Affiliations

  • 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

  • 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

  • Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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