File: International Astronomical Union

Scope and Content

A general file relating to Kopal's involvement with the IAU during his retirement years. Most of the content is routine correspondence relating to attendance at the IAU Assemblies. congresses, and colloquia, especially commissions 17 and 42, of which he was a long-standing member. Includes the Bandung colloquium 1983 1984 Bamberg conference on astrometric binaries, IAU colloquium double and multiple systems Liege, 1987, Nanjing colloquium 1989 and colloquium 107 on Algol [a multiple star in the constellation of Perseus] Victoria British Columbia (where Kopal was an invited speaker).

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See also KOP/1/171 and KOP/1/230.