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Introducing AstroGen: The Astronomy Genealogy Project

History and Philosophy of Physics 2016-12-30 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

The Astronomy Genealogy Project ("AstroGen"), a project of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), will soon appear on the AAS website. Ultimately, it will list the world's astronomers with their highest degrees, theses for those who wrote them, academic advisors (supervisors), universities, and links to the astronomers or their obituaries, their theses when on-line, and more. At present the AstroGen team is working on those who earned doctorates with astronomy-related theses. We show what can be earned already, with just ten countries essentially completed.

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@article{arxiv.1612.08908,
  title  = {Introducing AstroGen: The Astronomy Genealogy Project},
  author = {Joseph S. Tenn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.08908},
  year   = {2016}
}

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