From Bush Observatory to the Nobel Prize
by
Ragbir Bhathal, Ralph Sutherland, Harvey Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This book tells the story of the Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra which began with W.G. Duffield's idealism and vision in 1905. The Observatory began life as a government department, later becoming an optical munitions factory producing gun sights and telescopes during the Second World War, before...