K 125-i godovshine so dnya rozhdeniya Artura Stenli Eddingtona
A. I. Eremeeva/GAISh, Moskva, 24 dekabrya 2007

Artur Stenli Eddington (28.12.1882 –22.11.1944) ( k 125-i godovshine so dnya rozhdeniya) Artur Stenli Eddington – vydayushiisya angliiskii astronom i fizik, odin iz osnovopolozhnikov teoreticheskoi astrofiziki. Okonchil Manchesterskii universitet (1902); Triniti-kolledzh Kembridzhskogo universiteta (1906); do 1913g. sotrudnik Grinvichskoi observatorii; v 1914g. izbran «plyumianskim professorom» (nekogda titul N'yutona) Kembridzhskogo universiteta. S 1914g.

ZhANSEN P'er Zhyul' Sezar
19.12.2007 15:08 | Lyudmila Zavadskaya/GAISh, Moskva

23.12.2007 - ispolnyaetsya sto let so dnya smerti francuzskogo astronoma - Zhansena P'era Zhyulya Sezara. P.Zh.S. Zhansen rodilsya v Parizhe. V 1852 godu okonchil Parizhskii universitet, zatem prepodaval v licee, rabotal domashnim uchitelem. V 1862 godu oborudoval sobstvennuyu nebol'shuyu observatoriyu v Parizhe, v kotoroi nachal nablyudeniya Solnca.