Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950(English, Hardcover, Osterbrock Donald E.)

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Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950(English, Hardcover, Osterbrock Donald E.) is written by Osterbrock Donald E. and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226639452 (ISBN 10) and 9780226639451 (ISBN 13).

This is a centennial study of Yerkes Observatory, built a century ago by the University of Chicago as one of America's first big science centres. The text describes the changing fortunes of the Observatory under its first three directors, and is illustrated with many archival photographs. Under its founmder and first director, George Ellery Hale, Yerkes pioneered the new science of astrophysics. E.B. Frost, Hale's successor, allowed Yerkes to decline from 1904 to 1932, although it still trained rising young astronomers such as Edward Hubble. Finally, with the support of Robert M. Hutchins, the University of Chicago's "boy president", the "boy director" Otto Struve presided over Yerkes' revitalization in the 1930s and 1940s.