Table of Contents

Foreword

Director s message

Abbreviations and acronyms

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 A place in the sun, 1905-1923

2 The road to Stromlo, 1924-1930

3 Problems and progress, 1931-1939

4 War on the mountain, 1940-1945

5 From the sun to the stars, 1946-1950

6 A fruitful partnership, 1951-1956

7 Harvard in the south, 1957-1966

8 The rise and rise of astrophysics, 1966-1977

9 A time to build, 1977-1986

10 Dark matter, 1986-1992

11 Big science, 1993-2002

Epilogue January 2003

Appendix I Observatory directors

Appendix II Staff astronomers at Mount Stromlo

Appendix III Stromlo graduates and their thesis titles

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Tom Frame is a respected historian who has written seven books, five of them in the area of military history, including the best-selling accounts of the HMAS Melbourne and Voyager tragedy and the HMAS Sydney tragedy. He was consecrated Fifth Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Force in June 2001.

Dr Don Faulkner is a Visiting Fellow at the ANU s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He spent virtually his whole professional career at Mount Stromlo Observatory, before retiring in 1998 as Associate Director for Education and Outreach. He served as the President of the Astronomical Society of Australia during 1989-91. Don is an enthusiastic exponent of astronomy with his evening lecture series Astronomy for Fun running for twenty years at Mount Stromlo.