THE HUNTINGTON: LIBRARY, ART COLLECTIONS, AND BOTANICAL GARDEN
Dibner Lecture
“When the Telescope Met the Computer:
The Changing Nature of Doing Modern Astronomy” by W. Patrick McCray
Between the dedication of the 200” Hale Telescope in 1948 and the completion of today’s 10 meter behemoths, new electronic technologies have transformed astronomy’s most iconic symbol—the telescope itself.
W. Patrick McCray, professor of history at University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in the History of Science at Caltech and the Huntington, explores how the “computerization” of astronomy affected how scientists did research as their views of the night sky shifted from analog to digital.
March 27, 2012
7:30 p.m., Friends’ Hall
Free. No reservations required.
