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