Allan R Sandage

Allan Sandage

Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in...

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 1, The Mount Wilson Observatory: Breaking the Code of Cosmic Evolution

Perched atop a mountain wilderness, the two mammoth solar tower telescopes and the 60- and 100-inch behemoth night-time reflectors of the Mount Wilson Observatory were the largest in the world, and at the center of the development of astrophysics. This book brings together the science and personal s...

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: 2002

The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies (2 Volume Set)

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 5 Volume Hardback Set

A 2005 set comprising five volumes detailing the histories of the established departments of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Geophysical Laboratory, the Department of Plant Biology and the Department of Embryology. A ...

Discovering the Expanding Universe

The discovery of the expanding universe is one of the most exciting exploits in astronomy. This book explores its history, from the beginnings of modern cosmology with Einstein in 1917, through Lemaître's discovery of the expanding universe in 1927 and his suggestion of a Big Bang origin, to Hubble'...

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: 2001

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Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 5 Volume Paperback Set

A 2005 set comprising five volumes detailing the histories of the established departments of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Geophysical Laboratory, the Department of Plant Biology and the Department of Embryology. A ...

Galaxies and the Universe (Stars & Stellar Systems)

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