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Volume 40 Literature 1985, Part 2
Edited by S. Böhme U. Esser W. Fricke H. Hefele I. Heinrich W. Hofmann D. Krahn V. R. Matas L. D. Sehrnadel G. Zech
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH 1986
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstraße 12-14, D-6900 Beideiberg 1, F .R. Germany Telex: 461336 ARIHD D Director: Prof. Dr. Roland WieJen Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts Department head: Dr. Lutz D. Sehrnadel Editors-in-Chief: Inge Heinrich, Dr. Lutz D. Sehrnadel
ISBN 978-3-662-11180-2
ISBN 978-3-662-11178-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-11178-9
© by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986 Originally published by Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg in 1986. Softcoverreprint of the bardeover 1st edition 1986
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-104650. Media conversion: Daten- und Lichtsatz-Service, Würzburg.
On the Occasion of the Retirement of Professor Walter Fricke
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Walter Fricke retired from his duties as Director of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut on September 30, 1985. With Volume 40 of Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts his responsibilities in editing this international bibliographic publication also come to an end. When Walter Fricke became director of the Institut in 1955, he also took charge of the bibliographic series Astronomischer Jahresbericht. Founded in 1899 by W. F. Wislicenus as a private initiative, this astronomical documentation service had been compiled as a publication ofthe Institut since 1911. For more than thirty years Walter Fricke has contributed time and energy to the enterprise ofproviding a useful and up-to-date bibliographical service to the astronomical community. When in 1968 Walter Fricke decided to terminate the Astronomischer Jahresbericht and to establish Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts instead, he had carefully assessed what was required of an internationally acceptable astronomical bibliography in the "scientific publications explosion" age. Walter Fricke thoroughly reframed the basic concepts of the documentation. He realized the necessity of adopting the English language, of introducing new methods of technical production, and, later on, of applying modern data processing techniques. The reviewers' system of the Astronomischer Jahresbericht was replaced by a team of staff astronomers that today constitutes the major department of the Institut. These changes - together with the semi-annual publication - led to a dramatic reduction of the time needed to process the published material and so improved considerably the work's usefulness. His enthusiasm and endurance proved decisive in overcoming the inevitable initial difficulties and toil. Walter Fricke's keen sense of new developments in the scientific information area, his open-mindedness to suggestions from his co-workers, his policy of broadest consensus in daily work and his overwhelming amiability in personal relations with junior staff members have been essential ingredients in this success. For him the adoption of Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts under the a
