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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper OBITUARY GERARD PETER KUIPER 19051973 Gerard Peter Kuiper perhaps the most prominent planetary astronomer In the world for many decades died in Mexico City on 23 December 1973 In the period between...
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1974
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper Titan which after a quarter century interval has now proved to be an object of extraordinary interest the presence of ice on or among the ring particles of Saturn and the variability...
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1974
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper This was a gathering of planetary astronomers spectroscopists meteor ologists geologists geophysicists and those working on the earliest phases of rocket exploration of the upper atmosphere The resulting symposium proceedings The Atmospheres...
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1974
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper at the University of Chicago In 1960 he left for the University of Arizona where he founded the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Among his primary concerns during his first decade of work...
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1974
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper Kuiper had a rare simultaneous talent for observational laboratory and theoretical approaches to planetary problems although his chief love was to be at the telescope This multifaceted approach to the subject was...
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1974
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper 6 Laboratory JVÃ Kuiper early saw the enormous significance for solar system astronomy of the rocket motors being developed in the 1950fs and played a major part in the unmanned lunar programs...
- Contributor: Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1974