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Some reminiscences of frank kerr and the work on the milky way and the magellanic clouds

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Frank Kerr and I first met in 1952, when he was on the staff of the CSIRO Radiophysics Division, then housed on the grounds of the University of Sydney, and I was working at Mount Stromlo Observatory as the first Research Fellow of the newly created Astronomy Department of the Australian National University in Canberra.

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de Vaucouleurs, G. (1988). Some reminiscences of frank kerr and the work on the milky way and the magellanic clouds. In: Blitz, L., Lockman, F.J. (eds) The Outer Galaxy. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 306. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-19484-3_39

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