Abstract
WITH the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal, this periodical completes its hundredth volume. Founded in 1895 by Hale as an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics, the Astrophysical Journal soon became the acknowledged medium for the publication of research, and especially of observational research, by English-speaking astrophysicists. Although the original plan of appointing collaborating editors from countries other than the United States has been recently abandoned, the international character of the journal is still attested by its contents pages. During the past fifty years such famous names as those of Cornu, Huggins, Belopolsky, Kayser, Schuster, Newall and Alfred Fowler have appeared beside those of their American colleagues, and such contemporary names as Adams, Millikan, Russell, Shapley and Otto Struve are likely to be as well remembered in the future. Nearly all the major spectroscopic and astrophysical advances of the past half-century are recorded in the first hundred volumes: the Fabry-Perot interferometer, the Rowland solar wave-length table, the first photographic trigonometrical parallaxes and spectroscopic parallaxes, the 100-in. telescope, the Einstein and the nebular red-shifts, 'nebulium' and super-novæ, to mention only a few. With the completion of the 200-in. telescope after the War, science may look to see its boundaries enlarged yet again in the pages of the Astrophysical Journal.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Jubilee of the Astrophysical Journal. Nature 155, 449–450 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155449d0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155449d0