书目名称 | Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve | 编辑 | Alan H. Batten | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Astrophysics and Space Science Library | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | My interest in the history of the Struve family is long-standing but lay dormant until 1972, when I found myself organizing a symposium of the International Astronomical Union in memory of the second Otto Struve. To satisfy my own curiosity, I investigated the precise relationships of the famous astronomers in the family and published an account of them, based mainly on secondary sources. The exercise made me a ware that there was no biography in English of the first and probably still the greatest astronomer in the clan - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. Wilhelm‘s son, the first Otto, wrote an account (in German) of his father‘s life, intended primarily for family and close friends and --though printed-- not generally available. Through the kindness of a family member I have a copy from which I have been able to work. The Soviet historian of science, Z. K. Sokolovskaya, wrote a biography in Russian, in 1964, to mark the centenary of Wilhelm‘s death. This had a limited edition, and my efforts to obtain a copy failed. Neither work has, in its entirety, been translated into English, although Michael Meo of Oakland, California, and Kevin Krisciunas of Hilo, Hawaii, have kindly made av | 出版日期 | Book 1988 | 关键词 | astronomy; earth; observatory; stars | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2883-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-7798-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-2883-1Series ISSN 0067-0057 Series E-ISSN 2214-7985 | issn_series | 0067-0057 | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988 |
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