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210. A. H. 1954, Bull. Astr. Inst. Netherlands 12, pp. 117. Bengt Stromgren studied and worked at Kobenhavn Observatoriet, then at the Yerkes and MacDonald Observatories. U. U. President in 1970-73. He was President of the Council of the European Southern Observatory from 1975 to 1978 and is now Director of the Nordisk Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics in Kobenhavn. H. Sadler My first sight of Jan Oort was at the evening reception at l'Observatoire de Paris in July 1935 on the occasion of the fifth (and my first) General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
And the successes in radioastronomical res parch 01' Lhe Westerbork installation have infLuenced the development of radio astronomy ill oLhf:"r countries, particularly the United States. ces possible the combination of observational data from a very wide range of wavelengths. In 19)4, the positional uncertainties amounted to 10 minutes of arc, with corresponding large "error boxes" on the identification photographs. Today, Westerbork charts yielding positions accurate to a fevr seconds of arc have been compared vri th deep plates obtained with the new generation of )I-meter reflectors.
37 OORT'S SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE ON A WORLD-WIDE SCALE Bengt Stromgren On contemplating the title for IJ.. contribution to the HLiber amiCOYillIl for Jan H. Oart H to me by the Editors, I tried to imagine the situation of a of natural science, working some time during the twenty-first century on a monograph descri"bL'1g Jan Oart I s scientific importance. If this historian would have covered in his monograph a portion of the history of astronomy in our century. I must limit myself to seJect examples illustratinB what Jan Oort's scientific work, his ideas and his inspiration, have meant La asLronomers allover the world, and to tte development of astronomy.