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The First Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

AUG 01, 1989
Born at poolside on a summer afternoon, the idea for a Texas‐sized conference blossomed when it was realized that the newly found quasars might be relativistically significant.
Engelbert L. Schucking

Someone—I do not remember who—discovered that this is the 25th anniversary of the first Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. The discovery is the more remarkable since the conference is held every two years and the number 25 is, I believe, odd. Undoubtedly, this fact could, should and presumably will be explained by historians of science—thus I will not bother.

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References

  1. 1. H.‐Y. Chiu, PHYSICS TODAY, May 1964, p. 21.

  2. 2. I. Robinson, A. Schild, E. L. Schucking, eds., Quasistellar Sources and Gravitational Collapse, U. of Chicago P., Chicago (1965), p. 470.

  3. 3. E. L. Schucking, Law, Medicine & Health Care 13, 261 (1985).

  4. 4. PHYSICS TODAY, August 1967, p. 77.

  5. 5. F. Seitz, PHYSICS TODAY, March 1980, p. 100.

  6. 6. E. L. Schucking, PHYSICS TODAY, March 1978, p. 79.

More about the authors

Engelbert L. Schucking, New York University.

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