[FPSPACE] FW: Struve Conference

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "Dick, Steven J. (HQ-ND020)" <steven.j.dick at NASA.GOV>
>Reply-To: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU>
>To: HASTRO-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
>Subject: [HASTRO-L] Struve Conference
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:51:17 -0400
>
>Greetings:
>
>Robert McCutcheon, U. S. Embassy Moscow, has asked me to post the
>following updated information.  Steve Dick
>
>Struve Conference in Kharkov, Ukraine
>
>On May 21-23, 2007, the Astronomical Institute of the V. N. Karazin
>National University (Kharkov Observatory), and the Ukrainian
>Astronomical Association will co-host a Scientific-Memorial Conference
>dedicated to Otto L. Struve.  Struve, famous in the United States as one
>of America's leading 20th century astrophysicists, was born in Kharkov
>in 1897.  The son of Kharkov University Observatory director Ludwig
>Struve, grandson of Pulkovo director Otto W. Struve, and great-grandson
>of Pulkovo Observatory founder Wilhelm Struve, Otto Struve himself
>studied astronomy in Kharkov before being caught up in the whirlwind of
>the 1917 Russian revolutions and the ensuing civil war.  An officer in
>General Anton Denikin's Volunteer Army, Struve escaped Russia together
>with the remnants of Denikin's army when the anti-Bolshevik movement
>collapsed.  After months in a Turkish refugee camp, in 1921 Struve made
>his way to Yerkes Observatory, thereby beginning a long and
>distinguished career in the U.S.
>
>Although well-known in the U.S., Struve was virtually a non-person in
>the Soviet Union.  Too famous on the international scene to be ignored
>completely, references to Struve in Soviet literature were short and
>always glossed over his Kharkov roots and anti-Bolshevik past.
>
>The May conference in Kharkov marks an important event in the
>restoration of Struve's legacy in his home town.  It will include the
>unveiling of a memorial plaque and the opening of a new history museum
>at the Kharkov Observatory, where a number of documents from the
>personal papers of Wilhelm Struve and Otto W. Struve will be on display
>for the first time.  (A significant portion of the Wilhelm and Otto V.
>Struve papers are archived in Kharkov.)  The conference is expected to
>attract astronomers and historians from Ukraine, Russia, Europe, and the
>U.S.
>
>For further details and registration information, go to
>
>http://www.astron.kharkov.ua/conference/struve2007/index.html
>
>  or contact Organizing Committee chair Marat Balyshev in Kharkov
>(balyshev at yahoo.com, +38 050 566-4988 mob. phone) or Robert McCutcheon
>in the Office of Environment, Science, and Technology at the U.S.
>Embassy in Moscow (McCutcheonRA at state.gov, +7 [495] 728-5156).
>
>
>Dr. Steven J. Dick
>NASA Chief Historian
>Director, NASA History Division
>Office of External Relations
>NASA Headquarters
>300 E Street SW
>Washington, D.C. 20546-0001
>202 358 0383 (PH)
>202 358 2866 (Fax)
>steven.j.dick at nasa.gov