The Letters and Papers of Jan Hendrik Oort As Archived in the Univer

The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992) left behind an extensive collection of notes and correspondence, both on his research and on matters that concerned him in a variety of official functions. Upon Oort's death, the collection was augmented by more

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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 213

Executive Committee W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands J. M. E. KmJPERS, Faculty 0/ Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University 0/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University o/Utrecht, The Netherlands

Editorial Board I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Germany

J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute/or Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universitii di Padova, Italy W. B. BURTON, Sterrewacht, Leiden, The Netherlands J. P. CASSINELLI, University o/Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d' Etudes de Saclay, Gi/-sur- Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute o/Theoretical Astrophysics, University 0/ Oslo, Norway J. M. E. KmJPERS, Faculty 0/ Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands R. McCRAY, University 0/ Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India F. H. SHU, University o/California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research 'nstitute, Moscow, Russia S. TREMAINE: CIT).; University o/Toronto, Canada Y. TANAKA, Institute 0/ Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University 0/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University 0/ Utrecht, The Netherlands N. O. WEISS, University o/Cambridge, UK

THE LETTERS AND PAPERS of JAN HENDRIK OORT AS ARCHIVED IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, LEIDEN by

J. K. KATGERT-MERKELIJN Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands

SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

ISBN 978-94-010-6432-3 ISBN 978-94-011-5764-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-5764-3

The portrait on the cover was painted in 1987 by Gerard de Wit (1931) and is reproduced with pennission of the Oort Family

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AU Rights Reserved © 1997 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1997 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover Ist edition 1997 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

Jan Hendrik Oort, c. 1935

Page TABLE OF CONTENTS

v

PREFACE

ix

INTRODUCTION

XI

BIOGRAPHY

Inventory No.

xv

1. RESEARCH AND TEACHING 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. 1.7. 1.8. 1.9. 1.10.

Research, general Specific research for special lectures Book reviews, biographies etc Popular lectures and articles Courses of lectures at Leiden Observatory Other lectures Research of colleagues and students Lecture notes when a student Chapter 21 of Stars and Stellar Systems V; Book No