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IAU General Secretary 1997–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2019

Johannes Andersen
Johannes Andersen*
Affiliation:
The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK–2100 Copenhagen, Denmark email: ja@nbi.ku.dk
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Abstract

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The IAU is like an old house: Each of the IAU General Secretaries brings her/his individual skills, trying to fix it up. After the collective efforts of several General Secretaries, the house is hopefully kept in reasonable overall shape. But each General Secretary is also in principle responsible for everything, which means that priorities for the way you spend your time must be set – remembering that surprises may occur at any moment.

In my case, I’d like to single out five major initiatives taken during my term, which have probably proved useful in the longer term.

Keywords

Sociology of astronomyhistory and philosophy of astronomymiscellaneous
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S349: Under One Sky: The IAU Centenary Symposium , December 2018 , pp. 125 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2019 

References

Andersen, J., Baneke, D., & Madsen, C., 2019, The International Astronomical Union: Uniting the Community for 100 Years, Springer International PublishersCrossRefGoogle Scholar