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THE University of Copenhagen celebrated the four hundredth anniversary on December 14 of the birth of Tycho Brahe (see Nature, December 14, p. 856), and honorary degrees were conferred on twelve astronomers from Denmark, Great Britain, Holland, Norway, Sweden, the United States and the U.S.S.R. The British representatives were Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal, and Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, professor of astrophysics in the University of Cambridge.
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Tycho Brahe Celebrations. Nature 158, 906 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158906c0
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