Gérard de Vaucouleurs
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| Born | April 25, 1918 Paris |
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| Died | October 7, 1995 |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | astronomy |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne |
| Notable awards | Henry Norris Russell Lectureship 1988 |
Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs (April 25, 1918–October 7, 1995) was a French astronomer.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Paris, he had an early interest in amateur astronomy and received his undergraduate degree in 1939 at the Sorbonne in that city. After military service in World War II, he resumed his pursuit of astronomy.
Fluent in English, he spent 1949–1951 in England, 1951–1957 in Australia, the latter at Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1957–1958 at Lowell Observatory in Arizona and 1958–1960 at Harvard. In 1960 he was appointed to the University of Texas at Austin, where he spent the rest of his career.
He specialized in the study of galaxies and was co-author of the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies.
The de Vaucouleurs modified Hubble sequence is a widely used variant of the standard Hubble sequence.
De Vaucouleurs was awarded the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship by the American Astronomical Society in 1988.
[edit] Bibliography
- Lahav; Naim; Buta & Corwin (1995), Galaxies, Human Eyes, and Artificial Neural Networks., vol. 267 (published 1995 Feb 10), pp. 859-862, PMID:17813914, doi:10.1126/science.267.5199.859, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17813914>
- de Vaucouleurs, G (1993), “Tests of the long and short extragalactic distance scales.”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 (11): 4811-3, 1993 Jun 1, PMID:11607392, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11607392>
- Masursky; Batson; McCauley & Soderblom (1972), Mariner 9 Television Reconnaissance of Mars and Its Satellites: Preliminary Results., vol. 175 (published 1972 Jan 21), pp. 294-305, PMID:17814535, doi:10.1126/science.175.4019.294, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17814535>
- de Vaucouleurs, G & Wertz, J R (1971), “Hierarchical big bang cosmology.”, Nature 231 (5298): 109, 1971 May 14, PMID:16058406, doi:10.1038/231109a0, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16058406>
- Vaucouleurs (1970), Postscript., vol. 168 (published 1970 May 22), pp. 917, PMID:17844177, doi:10.1126/science.168.3934.917-a, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17844177>
- de Vaucouleurs (1970), “The Case for a Hierarchical Cosmology.”, Science 167 (3922): 1203-1213, 1970 Feb 27, PMID:17751407, doi:10.1126/science.167.3922.1203, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17751407>
[edit] See also
- Edwin Hubble
- Galaxy morphological classification
- Galaxy color-magnitude diagram
- de Vaucouleurs modified Hubble sequence
- William Wilson Morgan
