Beer, Arthur, 1900-1980

LC control no.	n 83827715
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Beer, Arthur, 1900-1980 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Cambridge (England)
Birth date	1900-06-28
Death date	1980-10-10
Place of birth	Liberec (Czech Republic)
Affiliation	Deutsche Seewarte University of Cambridge. Solar Physics Observatory Kew Observatory Royal Astronomical Society International Astronomical Union
Profession or occupation	Astronomers
Found in	LCCN 63-20875: Ogorodnikov, K.F. Dynamics of stellar systems, 1965 (hdg.: Beer, Arthur, 1900- ; usage: Arthur Beer) LC data base, 11-15-83 (hdg.: Beer, Arthur, 1900- ; usage: Arthur Beer) The expanding earth ; some consequences of Dirac's gravitation hypothesis, 1971: title page (Pascual Jordan; translated and edited by Arthur Beer, M.A., Ph. D., D.Sc.h.c, University of Cambridge; with the collaboration of J. B. Hutchings, T. R. Stoeckley) Wikipedia, May 20, 2020 (Arthur Beer; Arthur Beer (June 28, 1900 - October 20, 1980) was a German astronomer who worked at Cambridge University; he was born in Reichenberg, Bohemia; he received his Ph. D. in 1927 with the dissertation "Zur Charakterisierung der spektroskopischen Doppelsterne" ("On the characterization of spectroscopic binaries"); Beer then worked as a secondary assistant on radiation of planets and on star observation reductions for the second catalogue of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at the Breslau University Observatory through 1928; in 1929 he worked in Hamburg, Germany at the Deutsche Seewarte (German Maritime Observatory) as a tide astronomer and produced a program for the North German Radio Station called Aus Natur und Technik ("News from Nature and Technology"), among the first scientific radio program series ever aired; Beer gave frequent lectures at the Hamburg Planetarium, was a columnist for various newspapers both within Germany and abroad, and continued producing his radio programs, eventually aired in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; due to the persecution of Jewish scientists in Nazi Germany, Arthur emigrated to Cambridge in 1934, with the help of Albert Einstein, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, and Fritz Saxl of the Warburg Institute; Beer carried out astrophysical research under F.J.M. Stratton at the Cambridge Solar Physics Observatory from 1934 to 1937; he was a seismologist at the Kew (meteorological-seismological) Observatory from 1941 to 1945; from 1946 until his retirement in 1967 he was senior assistant observer at Cambridge Observatories; he also traveled to work at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Canada, and to the U.S. as a visiting professor at Swarthmore College during this period; Beer was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union; he is buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge with his wife Charlotte)
Associated language	ger eng