The role of the IAU gleaned from oral histories of individuals involved in astronomy in South Africa

Lerothodi L. Leeuw; Jarita Holbrook

doi:10.1017/S1743921319000371

The role of the IAU gleaned from oral histories of individuals involved in astronomy in South Africa

Lerothodi L. Leeuw, Jarita Holbrook

School of Social and Political Science

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The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), formerly known as the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, will be 200 years old in 2020. Also, South Africa (SA), formerly a British colony known as the Cape of Good Hope, will celebrate her 100-year anniversary as an International Astronomical Union (IAU) member in 2020, following the IAU centenary in 2019 that this IAU Symposium 349 celebrates. In light of all this, particularly in anticipation of the 200-year anniversary of SAAO in 2020, the SA National Research Foundation (NRF) has developed a Roadmap for the History of Astronomy in South Africa. As part of this we are conducting an oral history of astronomers to complement the historical celebrations of the institutions and science relating to astronomy in SA, supported by the SA NRF. Primarily drawing on literature and setting the scene for this work, here we present a snippet of the on-going oral histories, to glean the role of the IAU in astronomy in South Africa and show the potential of the oral histories to inform and complement written history.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Under One Sky
Subtitle of host publication	The IAU Centenary Symposium
Editors	Christiaan Sterken, John Hearnshaw, David Valls-Gabaud
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	240-247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921319000371
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018

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Name	Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Number	349
ISSN (Print)	1743-9213

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oral history
South Africa
Cape of Good Hope Observatory

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Leeuw, L. L., & Holbrook, J. (2018). The role of the IAU gleaned from oral histories of individuals involved in astronomy in South Africa. In C. Sterken, J. Hearnshaw, & D. Valls-Gabaud (Eds.), Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium (pp. 240-247). (Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union; No. 349). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921319000371

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Leeuw, LL & Holbrook, J 2018, The role of the IAU gleaned from oral histories of individuals involved in astronomy in South Africa. in C Sterken, J Hearnshaw & D Valls-Gabaud (eds), Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, no. 349, Cambridge University Press, pp. 240-247. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921319000371

The role of the IAU gleaned from oral histories of individuals involved in astronomy in South Africa. / Leeuw, Lerothodi L.; Holbrook, Jarita.
Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium. ed. / Christiaan Sterken; John Hearnshaw; David Valls-Gabaud. Cambridge University Press, 2018. p. 240-247 (Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union; No. 349).

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