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
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.
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