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Gérard De Vaucouleurs
Pages 98-113

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... in Austin I, Texas, on October 7, 1995. His family background en cl father's name have proved elusive, since early in life he took the maiden name of his mother, cle VaucouTeurs.
From page 100...
... cle Vaucouleurs. EARLY EDUCATION IN PARIS; THE PLANET MARS; JULIEN PERIDIER'S OBSERVATORY AT LE HOUGA, FRANCE; WORLD WAR II Gerard began formal studies at the Sorbonne Research Laboratory, Paris, France, in 1936 en c!
From page 101...
... He made observations with a visual photometer of his own design on the zenith sky brightness cluring evening en cl morning twilight at Le Houga. This experience stoocl him in goocl steal!
From page 102...
... War II the lenses of the 24inch photographic and IS-inch visual Radcliffe refractors hacl been retrieved from their wartime tomb at the bottom of the telescope's concrete pier, en c! the ULO program on
From page 103...
... CTive Gregory prided himself on a special recipe for spaghetti with tomatoes en cl onions (Mill Hill grown!
From page 104...
... During the period 1951-54 Gerard was a research fellow at the Australian National University, en cl all observational astronomers will recognize what he must have felt on surveying the skies of the Southern Hemisphere, including especially our nearest companion galaxies, the MagelIanic Cloucis. His first important papers published shortly after settling in Australia, where he en cl Antoinette livecl on Mt.
From page 105...
... The paper by Kerr and de Vaucouleurs giving their results was publishecl in the Australian Journal of Physics in 1955. RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES: LOWELL OBSERVATORYAND HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY I met Gerard en cl Antoinette again in 1957 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
From page 106...
... PASADENA AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES Allan Rex Santiago was working at SI3 Santa Barbara Street on his major work on the extension of Edwin Hubble's classification of galaxies, from ellipticals through the spiral sequence to the irregular galaxies, en c! production of the Hubble AtIas.
From page 107...
... " Gerard toIcl Pascal Fouque.8 Ten years after Antoinette's observation, cletails of observations of such variability appeared in 1968 in two joint publications by Gerard en cl Antoinette, en cl two short papers by Gerard en cl Antoinette in ~ 972 en cl ~ 973 clescribecl variations in the nuclear luminosity of the Seyfert galaxies NGC 35 ~ 6 and 5548.
From page 108...
... The Hubble Constant, Ho, defines the relation between the luminosity of galaxies selectecl to have as similar properties as possible, as measures of their distances, en cl the recishifts measured in their spectra, proclucecl by their recession velocities in the expansion of the Universe. Santiago en cl Gustav Tammann, in a series of papers cluring the 1970s, hacl a value for Ho of 57 (later 50)
From page 109...
... Although in pain, she was able to work on the catalogue until June 1987, just ten weeks before she cliecI. During this period I usecl to receive phone calls from Gerard two or three times a week to tell me of her progress or lack of it en c!
From page 110...
... G de Vaucouleurs.
From page 111...
... 10:107-40. 1950 Orientation spatiale et sens de rotation de la nebuleuse spirale NGC 2146.
From page 112...
... 1972 With A de Vaucouleurs.
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... 1991 With A de Vaucouleurs, H


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