Henry G. Horak

Mid-twentieth-century astronomy at the University of Kansas

​Los Alamos, NM
December 1998

• Introduction
• My Family and My Early Years in Kansas City
• My Undergraduate Years
• My Service in the Military
• My Graduate Study in Astronomy after the War
• Storer and I become Colleagues
• My First Astronomy Classes: Robert Brownlee and R Scuti
• A Partial List of Advanced Astronomy Students at KU (1950 TO 1970)
• Graduate Student Teaching
• The Emitting Atmosphere: Charles Lundquist
• A Letter from Banares, India
• Light Curves and the Theory of Eclipsing Binaries. Robert Talley
• The State of Rocket Science in the Mid-1950's
• The Lure of Space Exploration
• Orbital Motion of an Artificial Earth-Satellite. Robert Sprague
• Hydrodynamic Stability Problems. John Walton
• Philosophy, Astrophysics, and Time's Arrow. Donald Schumacher
• Celestial Mechanics, Astrodynamics, and Computers. Kenneth Ford
• The Visit with Former President Truman
• The Digital Compute at K.U.: Gale, Ganousek, Steve Little
• Molecular Spectroscopy: James Hesser
• Some Miscellaneous Items
• Computation of Spectroscopic Binary Elements. Robert Wolfe
• The Kansas Atlas of Stellar Spectra: Frank Younger
• The Ross Spectrograph Capabilities: Edwin Barker
• Photometer Electronics: WIlliam Galinaitis
• Lunar Photometry and Libration: Ted. V. Smith
• Hansen's Method for Absolute Perturbations. Maxwell Sandford
• Pseudo-Science in Astronomy
• The Astronomy Curriculum: The Relevance of Practical Astronomy
• Multiple Periodicities. Wayne Fullerton
• A Myriad of Galaxies and Cataloging Them: Harold Corwin
• Stellar Dynamics: Jack Hills
• Hydrodynamics and Combustion. Lawrence Cloutman
• My Decision to Leave KU
• The Theory of Visual Binaries: Edward Sion
• Degenerate Matter: James Liebert
• Binary Stars: Paul Etzel
• Astronomy at KU after 1967: Thom Gandet
• The Passing of Dr. Storer
• Where are they???
• A Short Summary of My work at Los Alamos