Remembering Edith Alice M¼ller

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Hardcover | 28 February 1998

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Edith Alicia M¼ller (1918-1995) was the IAU General Secretary from 1976 to 1979, the first woman to have this responsibility. Many friends, students and colleagues, and others who have met Edith at different occasions, give in this book their memories of her.
Her fundamental work in solar physics concerned the chemical composition of the Sun, the time variation of its infra-red spectrum, and its thermal structure. Her interests were, however, far broader than that. She was heavily involved in international work for the teaching of astronomy and for the exchange program of young astronomers.

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Introduction
Foreword	p. 5
Edith Alice Muller, Short biography	p. 6
Spain and Switzerland: The Youth
The life of Edith A. Muller
Personal and professional aspects	p. 11
Meeting with Edith Muller	p. 17
Starting with the Sun and Edith Muller	p. 18
I knew Edith for nearly half a century	p. 21
From Zurich to the IAU... Laughs and duties	p. 28
Edith in Cambridge and Ireland, 1951	p. 32
From a semester in Cambridge, Bernard	p. 34
The Sunny Years of Ann Arbor
Friends in Ann Arbor	p. 35
The Ann Arbor Community	p. 40
Coffee breaks in Ann Arbor	p. 43
An attractive little house	p. 44
From a summer school in Michigan	p. 45
Around the chemical elements	p. 47
From Ann Arbor onwards	p. 49
The right balance	p. 53
Back to Switzerland: Geneva...
Back to Switzerland at Geneva	p. 55
The privilege of having been EAM's collaborator	p. 60
The solar Lithium story	p. 64
At Tucson, looking at the solar system	p. 66
Remembering Edith Alicia	p. 68
From the solar iron abundance to the Secretariat of the IAU	p. 80
Kitt Peak, MacMath, the Sun and JOSO	p. 82
From one JOSO to another	p. 84
Edith back in Andalusia	p. 85
Montreal, the Joch, the Canaries	p. 87
How the entropy is increasing	p. 89
Together With the Iau
The IAU tribute to Edith A. Muller	p. 92
One great Lady astronomer	p. 94
A legendary polyglot... and lovely days	p. 96
From one GS of the IAU to another	p. 98
Edith Muller, General Secretary of the IAU	p. 99
From one G.A. to another	p. 107
Edith and the IAU: one big family	p. 111
Edith Muller at work on the planets	p. 114
Painful memories and welcome sight at Geneva	p. 115
Teaching astronomy: Edith Muller and the IAU	p. 115
Edith A. Muller and IAU commission 46	p. 117
Astronomy in education... and Swiss watches	p. 124
Brief encounters, here and there	p. 125
My Science Mother	p. 126
Do I remember Edith Muller?	p. 127
Tchaikovsky, Pushkin, ... and the Sun	p. 130
Edith Muller in Abastumani	p. 131
Drinking tea in Georgia	p. 133
From our first meeting, she confided in me	p. 134
Edith and the giant radiotelescope	p. 136
From "down under"	p. 136
In Geneva, one day	p. 136
Edith Muller missed in Japan	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 139
Index of Names	p. 145
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