Session 58. Stellar Personalities

HAD Oral, Monday, January 9, 2006, 2:30-4:00pm, Maryland C

58.01 Edmond Halley’s prescient thinking on the nature of comets

D.K. Yeomans (JPL/Caltech)

58.02 Astronomy Behind Enemy Lines in Colonial North America: John Winthrop's Observations of the Transits of Venus

S. J. Schechner (Harvard University)

58.03 James Smithson (1765-1829): Smithsonian Institution Founder And Its First Meteorite Investigator

R. S. Clarke, Jr., H. P. Ewing (Smithsonian Institution)

58.04 Why Does V.M. Slipher Get So Little Respect?

J. S. Tenn (Sonoma State University)

58.05 S. W. Burnham and the Centennial of the BDS

W.I. Hartkopf, B.D. Mason (U.S. Naval Observatory)

58.06 Roger Hayward and the Invention of the Two-Mirror Schmidt

T. E. Bell (Managing Editor, Journal of the Antique Telescope Society)

58.07 A Stellar Decade in the Career of Annie Jump Cannon: 1915-1925.

B. L. Welther (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

58.08 The Lyttleton-Hoyle correspondence 1939-42

S. Mitton (St Edmund's College, Cambridge)

58.09 Goldberg and Aller

R. Lindner (The University of Michigan)