scholarly journals Proceedings of the eighth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association : held at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 16th to 28th November 1953 / under the auspices of the National Research Council of the Philippines and the Republic of the Philippines.

1955 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Quezon City ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Association

scholarly journals American Astronomers in Belgium, 1919: Snapshots from the Founding of the IAU

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 406-418
Author(s):  
James M. Lattis ◽  
Anthony J. Lattis
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Council Meeting ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

AbstractThe USA delegation to the July 1919 International Research Council meeting in Brussels included Joel Stebbins, then professor of astronomy and observatory director at the University of Illinois, as secretary of the executive committee appointed by the National Research Council. Stebbins, an avid photographer, documented the travels of their party as the American astronomers attended the meeting and later toured devastated towns, scarred countryside, and battlefields only recently abandoned. Published reports of the meeting afterward attest to the impression left on the American visitors, and the photographs by Stebbins give us a glimpse through their own eyes. Selected photographs, recently discovered in the University of Wisconsin Archives and never before publicly seen, will be presented along with some commentary on their significance for the International Astronomical Union, which took shape at that 1919 meeting.

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