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Prof. Leon Mestel has been an inspiration to many to study the role of magnetism in the Cosmos. To mark the occasion of his retin'ment from the University of Sussex after 43 years in astrophysics, several of his friends and former students decided to hold an advanced research workshop in his honour. NATO agreed to finance this venture which was held at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge. The scientific organizing committee was J. Landstreet, D. Lynden-Bell, F. Pacini, M.A. Rud0rman and N.O. Weiss and most leading experts on Cosmical magnetism agreed to come. We are particularly grateful to Lyman Spitzer who, ably helped by his wife Doreen, !!;ave the after dinner addre~s on how the goddess Astrophysica had foreseen Leon's achievements in classical Greek times. Not without regret we decided to maintain the homog0neity of the material and therefore could not cover Leon Mestel's major achievements in non-magnetic astronomy. His work on the cooling of white dwarfs, his understanding that degenerate hydrogen was a nuclear explosive since its pressure was almost independent of temperature and hence, his picture of supernovae, which is now more commonly applied to novae, his seminal understanding of the 'law' of galactic rotation and his work on the non-linear development of t hp anisotropies generated in gravitational collapse.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cosmical Magnetism
Editors: D. Lynden-Bell
Series Title: Nato Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1110-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2730-1Published: 28 February 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4485-1Published: 05 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1110-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1389-2185
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 215
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques