Proceedings

Volume 155: Number 2

(June 2011)

Papers from the Symposium: Discoveries in Astronomy

Introduction: Discoveries in Astronomy
R. D. Ekers
K. I. Kellermann

Galileo, the Impact of the Telescope, and the Birth of Modern Astronomy
Owen Gingerich

The Discovery of Quasars
Maarten Schmidt

The Discovery of Pulsars and the Aftermath
Malcolm Longair

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“An Extravagant Assumption”: The Demographic Numbers behind Benjamin Franklin’s Twenty-Five-Year Doubling Period
William F. von Valtier

Mixing Apples and Oranges: What Poetry and Applied Mathematics Have in Common
Joel E. Cohen

Biographical Memoirs

Francis Clark Howell
Elwyn L. Simons

Ephraim Katzir-Katchalski
Michael Sela

Paul B. MacCready
William B.Wylam

Robert L. McNeil Jr.
Richard S. Dunn

Thomas Risley Odhiambo
Jerrold Meinwald
Koji Nakanishi

James Thorpe
Robert Middlekauff

Paul C. Zamecnik
Sudhir Agrawal