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Astronomers Meet

FEB 01, 1949

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066401

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In a torrential downpou‐such as drenched New Haven during the meetings of the American Astronomical Society, December 28–31, 1948, at Yale University, everyone looks more or less the same—but this alone could not account for the difficulty I had in distinguishing astronomers from physicists.

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