Kopal, Zdeněk, 1914-1993

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Name (Latin)

Other forms of name

Kopal, Z. (Zdeněk), 1914-1993

Date of birth

1914-04-04

Date of death

1993-06-23

Associated country

Czechoslovakia

Great Britain

United States

Occupation

Astronomers

Astrophysicists

Associated Language

cze

Gender

male

Biographical or Historical Data

Dept. of Astronomy, U. of Manchester, Eng.

MARC

VIAF: 110029053

Wikidata: Q168999

Library of congress: n 79089556

Sources of Information

Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015(Dept. of Astronomy, U. of Manchester, Eng.)
Vesmírní sousedé, 1987:title page (Zdeněk Kopal) dust jacket spine (Z. Kopal) page 9 (Prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Kopal, DrSc., native of Litomyšl born in 1914; left Czechoslovakia in 1938; worked at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United states, 1938-1951; head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Manchester since 1951)
Zdeněk Kopal; born 4 April 1914 in Czechoslovakia; died 23 June 1993 in England; astronomer; left Czechoslovakia to attend University of Cambridge in 1938 and then worked at the University of Manchester; was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science since its foundation in 1968 until his death in 1993 ( (Wikipedia, viewed February 19, 2015:) )
The internal constitution of the stars, 1941.
His Vesmírní sousedé naší planety, 1984:t.p. (Zdeněk Kopal) jkt. (RNDr.; DrSc.)
IAU Colloquim (97th : 1987 : Brussels, Belgium). Wide components in double and multiple stars, 1988:CIP t.p. (Z. Kopal)
Astronomy for developing countries, c2001:p. v (Zdeněk Kopal (1914-1993))

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