Paris 1907 : the observer vs the administrator
Abstract
RAS funding for a biographical database of scientists has thrown up a story of confusion and fake news surrounding the Paris Observatory's search for a new director in 1907. Toby Peres, Jose Gomez Mena, Edmund Robertson, Isobel Falconer and John O'Connor report.
Citation
Peres , T , Gomez Mena , J , Robertson , E , Falconer , I & O'Connor , J 2019 , ' Paris 1907 : the observer vs the administrator ' , Astronomy & Geophysics , vol. 60 , no. 1 , pp. 1.40-1.42 . https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atz051
Publication
Astronomy & Geophysics
Status
Non peer reviewed
ISSN
1366-8781Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2019 Royal Astronomical Society, published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society . This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher's policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atz051
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Authors are grateful to the Royal Astronomical Society for supporting Toby Peres summer studentship.Collections
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