1932
0
  1. Home
  2. A-Z Publications
  3. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  4. Volume 38, 2000
  5. Article

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volume 38, 2000

A Fortunate Life in Astronomy

Abstract

▪  

I have had a very fortunate career in astronomy, benefiting greatly from numerous accidents of fate. I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, served in the US Army Air Force in World War II, and had all my further education at the University of Chicago, from PhB in the College to PhD in astronomy and astrophysics. There, as a postdoc at Princeton University, and as a young faculty member at Caltech and Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, I had excellent teachers and mentors. I have done research primarily on gaseous nebulae and active galactic nuclei, but also made a few early contributions on stellar interiors and the heating in the outer layers of the Sun. The major part of my scientific career was at the University of Wisconsin and Lick Observatory, but I also had three productive years at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Keyword(s): active galactic nuclei, autobiography, galaxies, gaseous nebulae, Seyfert galaxies
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.1
2000-09-01
2024-05-08
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/astro/38/1/annurev.astro.38.1.1.html?itemId=/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.1&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

Literature Cited

  1. Abell GO. 1958. Ap. J. Suppl. 3:211
  2. Adams TF. 1977. Ap. J. Suppl. 33:19
  3. Antonucci RRJ, Miller JS. 1985. Ap. J. 297:621
  4. Baade W, Minkowski R. 1953. Ap. J. 119:206
  5. Capriotti ER. 1964. Ap. J. 139:225
  6. Capriotti ER, Daub CT. 1960. Ap. J. 132:677
  7. Cohen RD. 1983. Ap. J. 273:489
  8. Dahari O. 1984. Astron. J. 89:966
  9. Dahari O. 1985. Ap. J. Suppl. 57:643
  10. De Robertis MM, Osterbrock DE. 1984. Ap. J. 286:171
  11. De Robertis MM, Osterbrock DE. 1986. Ap. J. 301:727
  12. Dufour RJ. 1975. Ap. J. 195:315
  13. Federer CA. 1952. Sky Telesc. 11:138
  14. Ford HC. 1970. PhD thesis. Univ. Wisc
  15. Ford HC. 1971. Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 3:19
  16. Gingerich O. 1994. Phys. Today 47:34
  17. Grandi SA. 1978. Ap. J. 221:500
  18. Grandi SA, Osterbrock DE. 1978. Ap. J. 220:783
  19. Härm R, Schwarzschild M. 1955. Ap. J. Suppl. 1:319
  20. Hoyle F, Schwarzschild M. 1955. Ap. J. Suppl. 2:1
  21. Khachikian E, Weedman DW. 1974. Ap. J. 192:581
  22. Koski AT. 1978. Ap. J. 223:56
  23. Koski AT, Osterbrock DE. 1976. Ap. J. Lett. 203:L49
  24. MacAlpine GM. 1972. Ap. J. 175:11
  25. Mallik DCV. 1975. Ap. J. 197:355
  26. Mathis JS. 1957a. Ap. J. 125:318
  27. Mathis JS. 1957b. Ap. J. 125:328
  28. Miller JS. 1968. Ap. J. 151:473
  29. Minkowski R, Osterbrock DE. 1959. Ap. J. 129:523
  30. Morgan WW. 1971. Astron. J. 76:1000
  31. Morgan WW. 1988. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 26:1
  32. Morgan WW, Dreiser R. 1983. Ap. J. 269:438
  33. Morgan WW, Osterbrock DE. 1969. Ap. J. 74:515
  34. Morgan WW, Sharpless S, Osterbrock DE. 1952. Ap. J. 57:3
  35. Naur P, Osterbrock DE. 1953. Ap. J. 117:306
  36. Nüssbaumer H, Osterbrock DE. 1971. Ap. J. 161:811
  37. O'Dell CR. 1962. Ap. J. 135:371
  38. O'Dell CR, Collins GW, Daub CT. 1961. Ap. J. 133:471
  39. Osterbrock DE. 1952. Ap. J. 116:164
  40. Osterbrock DE. 1953. Ap. J. 118:529
  41. Osterbrock DE. 1955. Ap. J. 122:235
  42. Osterbrock DE. 1957. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 69:227
  43. Osterbrock DE. 1958a. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 70:180
  44. Osterbrock DE. 1958b. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 70:399
  45. Osterbrock DE. 1960. Ap. J. 132:325
  46. Osterbrock DE. 1961. Ap. J. 134:347
  47. Osterbrock DE. 1962. Ap. J. 135:196
  48. Osterbrock DE. 1963. Planet. Space Sci. 11:621
  49. Osterbrock DE. 1970a. J. Phys. B 3:149
  50. Osterbrock DE. 1970b. Ap. J. 160:25
  51. Osterbrock DE. 1971. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 11:623
  52. Osterbrock DE. 1977. Ap. J. 215:733
  53. Osterbrock DE. 1978a. Phys. Scr. 17:285
  54. Osterbrock DE. 1978b. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75:540
  55. Osterbrock DE. 1978c. Astronomical Papers Dedicated to Bengt Strömgren, ed. A Reiz, T Anderson 299 Copenhagen: Copenhagen Univ. Obs
  56. Osterbrock DE. 1979. Astron. J. 84:901
  57. Osterbrock DE. 1981. Ap. J. 250:462
  58. Osterbrock DE. 1991. Rep. Prog. Phys. 54:579
  59. Osterbrock DE. 1997. The Universe at Large: Key Problems in Astronomy and Cosmology, ed. G Münch, A Mampaso, F Sanchez 171 Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press
  60. Osterbrock DE, Capriotti ER, Bautz LP. 1963. Ap. J. 138:63
  61. Osterbrock DE, Costero R. 1977. Ap. J. 211:675
  62. Osterbrock DE, Flather E. 1959. Ap. J. 129:26
  63. Osterbrock DE, Fulbright JP. 1996. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 108:183
  64. Osterbrock DE, Koski AT. 1976. MNRAS 176:61P
  65. Osterbrock DE, Koski AT, Phillips MM. 1975. Ap. J. Lett. 197:L41
  66. Osterbrock DE, Koski AT, Phillips MM. 1976. Ap. J. 206:898
  67. Osterbrock DE, Martel A. 1993. Ap. J. 414:552
  68. Osterbrock DE, Miller JS. 1975. Ap. J. 197:535
  69. Osterbrock DE, O'Dell CR. 1962. Ap. J. 136:559
  70. Osterbrock DE, Parker RAR. 1965. Ap. J. 141:892
  71. Osterbrock DE, Parker RAR. 1966. Ap. J. 143:268
  72. Osterbrock DE, Shaw RA. 1988. Ap. J. 327:89
  73. Osterbrock DE, Shuder JM. 1982. Ap. J. Suppl. 49:149
  74. Osterbrock DE, Stockhausen RE. 1960. Ap. J. 131:310
  75. Osterbrock DE, Stockhausen RE. 1961. Ap. J. 133:2
  76. Osterbrock DE, Stockhausen RE. 1965. Ap. J. 141:287
  77. Pacholczyk AG, Weymann R. 1968. Ap. J. 73:836
  78. Phillips MM. 1977. Ap. J. 215:746
  79. Phillips MM. 1978a. Ap. J. Suppl. 38:18
  80. Phillips MM. 1978b. Ap. J. 226:736
  81. Pogge RW. 1988. Ap. J. 328:519
  82. Pogge RW. 1989. Ap. J. 345:751
  83. Sandage A, Schwarzschild M. 1952. Ap. J. 116:463
  84. Seaton MJ. 1954. Ann. Ap. 17:74
  85. Seaton MJ, Osterbrock DE. 1957. Ap. J. 125:66
  86. Shields GA. 1977. Ap. Lett. 18:119
  87. Shields GA. 1999. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 111:661
  88. Shuder JM. 1982. Ap. J. 259:48
  89. Shuder JM, Osterbrock DE. 1981. Ap. J. 250:55
  90. Simkin SM, Su HJ, Schwarz MP. 1980. Ap. J. 208:20
  91. Strömgren B. 1948. Ap. J. 108:242
  92. Tohline JE, Osterbrock DE. 1976. Ap. J. 210:117
  93. Tohline JE, Osterbrock DE. 1982. Ap. J. Lett. 252:L49
  94. Veilleux S. 1991a. Ap. J. Suppl. 75:357
  95. Veilleux S. 1991b. Ap. J. Suppl. 75:383
  96. Veilleux S. 1991c. Ap. J. 364:331
  97. Veilleux S, Osterbrock D. 1987. Ap. J. Suppl. 63:295
  98. Weedman DW. 1968. Ap. J. 153:49
  99. Williams RE. 1967. Ap. J. 147:556
  100. Woltjer L. 1959. Ap. J. 130:38
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.1
Loading
A Fortunate Life in Astronomy
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 38, 1 (2000); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.1
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.1
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.1
Loading

Data & Media loading...

  • Article Type: Review Article

Most Cited Most Cited RSS feed

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error