IAU General Secretary 1997-2000
Abstract
The IAU is like an old house: Each of the IAU General Secretaries brings her/his individual skills, trying to fix it up. After the collective efforts of several General Secretaries, the house is hopefully kept in reasonable overall shape. But each General Secretary is also in principle responsible for everything, which means that priorities for the way you spend your time must be set - remembering that surprises may occur at any moment.
- Publication:
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Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium
- Pub Date:
- April 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921319000218
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..349..125A
- Keywords:
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- Sociology of astronomy;
- history and philosophy of astronomy;
- miscellaneous