Pictures of  Astronomers

The following pictures were mostly taken from the collection of Olin Eggen. I thank Tom Ingerson for scanning the color slides. If you have any comments or corrections to the captions, please let me know. These pictures are copyrighted to the Olin Eggen Collection CD, unless the copyright was previously held. If you wish to use them for publication, please contact CTIO for permission which will usually be granted free of charge.
 

  Figure Misc01 Allan Sandage at the focus of the Mt. Wilson 60" spectrograph (?) around 1950.

  Figure Misc03. Richard Woolley and Bernard Pagel in the late 50s.

  Figure Misc04. Sir Richard Woolley with RGO in the background. 1956.

  Figure Misc05. Boring colloquium at La Plata, Argentina around 1960. Maartin Schmidt is almost asleep, and Margaret Burbidge is daydreaming.

  Figure Misc07. Bob Kraft, looking very bob kraftian, around 1960.

 

  Figure Misc12. Closeup of Geoff Burbidge and Allan Sandage in the late 50s from a conference photo.

  Figure Misc13.  A late 50s from a conference photo at Herstmonceux. Back row: ?, Mike Dixon, B.R. Leaton, B.E.J. Pagel. Second row: H. F. Finch, L.S.T. Symms, Humphrey Smith. Front row: McCrea, Linfoot, Hoyle
 

  Figure Misc17.  Photo of the construction of the new wing  of the old building at Lick Observatory around 1955.
 

  Figure Misc16.  Feast, Sandage, Wesselink, Thackeray, Kinman, Wayman, Woolley. They are standing at the front door of the Radcliffe Obs. offices around 1958.
 
 

  Figure Misc18.  Allan Sandage at the Radcliffe Observatory  in Pretoria around 1958. You can see the Radcliffe Cassegrain spectrograph.
 
 

  Figure Misc19. Allan Sandage at the Radcliffe Observatory telescope in Pretoria around 1958.

Figure Misc20. Walter Baade in Europe around 1956.
 

  Figure Misc26.  Ambartsumian and Hoyle in the late 50's.
 

  Figure Oe90.  Department of Astronomy photo at U Wisconsin
in the early 50s. Back: ?, Kron, Whitford. Front: Huffner, ?, Stebbins.

  Figure Old12.  Who is this? Why was this taken in Santa Rosa, of all places?
 

  Figure Old19.  Williams Huggins. For an interesting biographical sketch, link to the Bruce Medalist site of Joe Tenn at Sonoma State.

  Figure Old20.  A caricature of Lord Lindsay, later the Earl of Crawford who as a young man gave David Gill a start in astronomy. You can read more about Gill at the Bruce Medalist site. See also Bruck, H. A., "Lord Crawford's Observatory at
Dun-Echt 1872-1892," VISTAS IN ASTRONOMY V. 35:1, P. 81, 1992.
Obituary of Lord Lindsay.
 

  Figure Old21.  Who is this?


 

updated 03 May 2000