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'Olin Jeuck Eggen' (July 9 1919 – October 2 1998) was an American astronomer. Some sources incorrectly give his name as 'Olin Jenck Eggen'.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1940. After serving in World War II in the OSS, he returned to the university and received his Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1948.
He became known as one of the best observational astronomers of his time. He is best known for a seminal 1962 paper with Donald Lynden-Bell and Allan Sandage which suggested for the first time that the Galaxy had collapsed out of a gas cloud. He first introduced the now-accepted notion of moving groups of stars.
After his death he was found to have been in possession of highly significant historical files and documents that had apparently gone missing for decades from the Royal Greenwich Observatory, including the "Neptune file". Neptune's Discovery. The British Case for Co-Prediction. During his lifetime he had always denied having taken the papers or having them in his possession.
He won the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 1985.
★ "A Remembrance of Olin Eggen — 1919–1998", by Nicholas Suntzeff, 6 October 1998; ''NOAO Newsletter'', No. 56, December 1998.
★ "Eggen Takes the Papers", by Nick Kollerstrom, ''Neptune's Discovery: The British Case for Co-Prediction'', Science and Technology Studies, University College London.
★ "The Case of the Pilfered Planet", by William Sheehan, Nicholas Kollerstrom, and Craig B. Waff, ''Scientific American.com'', December 2004.
★ BAAS '32' (2000), 1661 (obituary)
'Olin Jeuck Eggen' (July 9 1919 – October 2 1998) was an American astronomer. Some sources incorrectly give his name as 'Olin Jenck Eggen'.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1940. After serving in World War II in the OSS, he returned to the university and received his Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1948.
He became known as one of the best observational astronomers of his time. He is best known for a seminal 1962 paper with Donald Lynden-Bell and Allan Sandage which suggested for the first time that the Galaxy had collapsed out of a gas cloud. He first introduced the now-accepted notion of moving groups of stars.
After his death he was found to have been in possession of highly significant historical files and documents that had apparently gone missing for decades from the Royal Greenwich Observatory, including the "Neptune file". Neptune's Discovery. The British Case for Co-Prediction. During his lifetime he had always denied having taken the papers or having them in his possession.
He won the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 1985.
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References
External links
★ "A Remembrance of Olin Eggen — 1919–1998", by Nicholas Suntzeff, 6 October 1998; ''NOAO Newsletter'', No. 56, December 1998.
★ "Eggen Takes the Papers", by Nick Kollerstrom, ''Neptune's Discovery: The British Case for Co-Prediction'', Science and Technology Studies, University College London.
★ "The Case of the Pilfered Planet", by William Sheehan, Nicholas Kollerstrom, and Craig B. Waff, ''Scientific American.com'', December 2004.
Obituaries
★ BAAS '32' (2000), 1661 (obituary)
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