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	AAS Biographical Memoirs - Richard van der Riet Woolley 1906-1986
		Woolley worthily upheld the formidable tradition to which he was heir, and of which the most important part had always been, with the best techniques of the time, to direct the Observatory to the scientific requirements of the time.
		Richard Woolley was both born and bred to the manner of career he came to follow.
		Woolley was able to infer a value of the density from the dependence of the mean stellar speed upon distance from the galactic plane derived from his observational material.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/aasmemoirs/woolley.htm (22150 words)

	Richard van der Riet Woolley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley (April 24, 1906 – December 24, 1986) was a British astronomer.
		His mother's maiden name was Van der Riet.
		He moved to South Africa when his parents retired there and got a degree from the University of Cape Town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_van_der_Riet_Woolley (196 words)

	AAS-Biographical memoirs-Woolley
		Woolley worthily upheld the formidable tradition to which he was heir, and of which the most important part had always been, with the best techniques of the time, to direct the Observatory to the scientific requirements of the time.
		Richard Woolley was both born and bred to the manner of career he came to follow.
		Woolley discussed in detail the relevant questions of radiative transfer in a stellar atmosphere – the solar atmosphere in particular - in which the atoms responsible for a spectral line are excited and de-excited by collisions as well as by radiation.
	www.science.org.au /academy/memoirs/woolley.htm (22084 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory. Richard van der Riet Woolley Papers, 1947-1975.
		Woolley (1906-1986) was eleventh Astronomer Royal, in office 1956-1971; Chief Assistant 1933-1937.
		Born in Dorest, Woolley attended school in Devon before his father retired in 1921 and moved the family to Cape Town, where in 1922 and at only 16 years of age, he entered the University.
		He was then supervised for his doctoral studies by Arthur Eddington, and it was due to the latter's influence and that of F. Stratton that Woolley decided on a career in astronomy.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/icos/6682.html (529 words)

	Optical Munitions Exhibition - Scientists: R. v.d.R. Woolley
		Richard van der Reit Woolley was born in 1906, in Dorset, England.
		Woolley had plans of changing the emphasis of the CSO from solar and geophysical work to stellar astronomy; however, his plans were delayed by the onset of the Second World War.
		At one early Panel meeting, Woolley had been told that the CSO was going to do all optical munitions design work, but then Laby started getting other universities, and especially the University of Melbourne (his own), to do design work as well.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/woolley.htm (735 words)

	Woolley, Richard van der Riet
		Woolley was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and studied at Cape Town, South Africa, and at Cambridge.
		He was director of the Commonwealth Observatory at Mount Stromlo, Canberra, Australia, 1939-55, and Astronomer Royal at Herstmonceux, Sussex, England, 1956-70.
		The observatory at Mount Stromlo was devoted mainly to solar physics, and Woolley devoted much of his time there to the study of photospheric convection, emission spectra of the chromosphere, and the solar corona.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/MainBiographies/W/Woolley/1.html (135 words)

	Woolley, Richard van der Riet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Woolley was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and studied at Cape Town, South Africa, and at Cambridge.
		He was director of the Commonwealth Observatory at Mount Stromlo, Canberra, Australia, 1939-55, and Astronomer Royal at Herstmonceux, Sussex, England, 1956-70.
		The observatory at Mount Stromlo was devoted mainly to solar physics, and Woolley devoted much of his time there to the study of photospheric convection, emission spectra of the chromosphere, and the solar corona.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/Woolley/1.html (135 words)

	TOUR DE STROMLO
		Richard van der Riet Woolley took up his duties on Mount Stromlo as Director of the then Commonwealth Solar Observatory early in December l939.
		Woolley took part but, unfortunately, someone had accidentally selected a rather knotty log for him, and he eventually gave up chopping after all the other contestants had finished.
		For many years afterwards, initially when Woolley and I were both living in the U.K., and later on when he went to South Africa as first Director of the SAAO, and eventually retired in Cape Town, I visited him frequently and we used to reminisce about "the good old days".
	msowww.anu.edu.au /~jarnyk/stibbsy.html (1553 words)

	Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley (1906—86), Eleventh Astronomer Royal from (1956—71)
		Woolley was the last Astronomer Royal to be Director of the Observatory.
		In 1955 he became Astronomer Royal when the Observatory was still moving equipment from Greenwich to Herstmonceux.
		Besides transporting equipment, Woolley pushed for new equipment including the Isaac Newton Telescope.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it3376z&axis=982642073&flash=false&dev= (232 words)

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