Word: stromlo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading expert on the Milky Way, will leave the University in January to direct the Mt. Stromlo Obseratory of the Australian National University...
...position as director of the Australian Commonwealth Observatory, on Mount Stromlo near Canberra, will enable to return to his original field of interest. Optical research on the Southern Milky Way has been his special interest since Harlow Shapley brought him to Harvard...
...Mount Stromlo Observatory has an excellent potential, but several of its instruments are not operative, and Bok calls it "an incomplete jig-saw puzzle, one that one feels should not be difficult to put right." Mount Stromlo uses optical, not radio telescopes, and while Bok will be cooperating with the Sydney Radiophysics Laboratory, he will generally be giving up his radio work, which, incidentally, has emphasized the co-ordination of optical and radio techniques for astrophysical research...