Menzel and Eclipses
@article{Pasachoff2002MenzelAE, title={Menzel and Eclipses}, author={Jay M. Pasachoff}, journal={Journal for the History of Astronomy}, year={2002}, volume={33}, pages={139 - 156} }
Eclipses played an important role in Donald Menzel's life, and thanks to him they do in mine.' In 1959, when I was a freshman, Harvard was trying to invigorate undergraduate education and started a project to bring senior faculty together with these first-year students. Underscoring the "Educator" portion of the title of this Centennial Symposium, Donald Menzel was one of the professors offering freshman seminars that first year. There were a dozen of us in the seminar," and a substantial…
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