Uhuru 50th Anniversary Meeting (virtual)

December 11, 2020



Agenda

Title Presenter
"Welcome" Harvey Tananbaum
"Beginnings of X-ray Astronomy" George Clark
"From the 1963 White Paper to the start of SAS-A/Uhuru" Harvey Tananbaum
"Uhuru Concept, Design, and Construction" Ed Kellogg
"Launch and First Several Weeks of Mission" Harvey Tananbaum
"A Philosophy for Scientific Discovery, the Uhuru Spirit and the Search for Secrets of the Hoary Deep" Wallace Tucker
"Cyg X-1 and Cen X-3 - X-ray Binaries with Black Holes and Neutron Stars" Ethan Schreier
"The First Uhuru Guest Investigator" Martin Weisskopf
"X-ray Binaries - Uhuru, Optical, & Radio" Christine Jones
"The First X-ray Log-N Log-S Analysis" Terry Matilsky
"The 4U Catalog and Clusters as Extended X-ray Sources" Bill Forman
"Uhuru and the Diffuse X-ray Background" Dan Schwartz
"How Uhuru Changed My Life" Lynn Cominsky
"Impacts of Uhuru Discoveries on all of Astrophysics" Rashid Sunyaev
OPEN SESSION - - -


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