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When I wasa child, growing up in South America,I often went camping in the wild and hence had direct access to the wondrous Southern sky; the Southern Cross was all mine at the time. Little did I know then that the study of the sky would take such a huge importance in my life, and that in the end astronomy and astrophysics would in many ways become my country and my religion. I have lived in several di?erent countries, and when asked my nationality, I am always very tempted to reply: astronomer. I started as a theorist, and my only dream in my youth was to spend nights thinking and calculating, with paper and pencil, and to have the impression by dawn that I had understood something new. So at the time astronomy was seen or dreamt by me as a solitary endeavour, with periodic encounters with my wise adviser and professors; it is this model that I adopted when doing my PhD work. My generation has lived through many revolutions of all kinds. Those in astronomy, I believe, remain particularly remarkable, and I am a true product of them. Now, I elect to live and work in large organizations, and to share my endeavours with many people. And I relish the series of Andr e Heck on Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, which help us recover our memories, reconstitute our own story, and read with glee about our neighbouring or far-away colleagues.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Astronomy, space & time

• Full title: Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 6
• Author: A. Heck
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 351
• EAN: 9781402040559
• ISBN: 1402040555
• ID: 02706171
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 771 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. January 2006

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