Press Release
From: <a href="https://www.aas.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">American Astronomical Society</a> <br/>Posted: Monday, October 12, 2020
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<span>The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is pleased to present the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy to Ileana Chinnici for her work “Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist” (Brill 2019,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://brill.com/view/title/39451" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://brill.com/view/title/39451&source=gmail&ust=1602598946443000&usg=AFQjCNEpMymtknDI4Wi_RUUHWYqsTySY9w">https://brill.com/view/title/3<wbr>9451</wbr></a><span>).</span>
Dit is die eerste vollengte biografie van die Italiaanse sterrekundige Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) in Engels en sal die definitiewe werk oor hierdie belangrike figuur in die geskiedenis van astrofisika word. Secchi het bekend geword as deel van die oorgang van klassieke posisionele sterrekunde na astrofisika. Hy was 'n pionier van spektroskopie en die toepassing daarvan op sterklassifikasie en sonfisika. By die 25ste herdenking van Secchi se dood, het George Ellery Hale sy bydraes geprys "tot die huidige wydverspreide belangstelling in Astro-fisiese navorsing." Chinnici se boek dek nie net die navorsing waarvoor Secchi onthou word nie, maar ook die breër omgewing waarin hy gewerk het. Gegrond op uitgebreide navorsing in Italiaanse en Vatikaan-argiewe, is dit ryklik geïllustreer met baie kleur- en swart-en-wit foto's.
Ileana Chinnici (https://www.astropa.inaf.it/en
Die Donald E. Osterbrock-boekprys (https://had.aas.org/awards_an
Die 2021 Osterbrock-boekprys sal aan Dr. Chinnici by die virtuele HAD-stadsaal oorhandig word vanaf 1:40 oostelike tyd op 11 Januarie 2021, wanneer sy 'n aanbieding oor haar boek sal lewer. Die HAD-stadsaal sal gehou word in samewerking met die virtuele 237ste AAS-vergadering (https://aas.org/meetings/aas2
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