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At a joint meeting of the American Astronomical Society and the American Physical Society held in June of 1940, the University of Michigan astronomer Dean McLaughlin (1940) gave a review of the current understanding of stellar evolution. At the end he somewhat facetiously remarked that, “For several years I have told students that I knew all about stellar evolution in 1923, less is 1925, and nothing at all since 1930.” I would like to suggest that those dates were not chosen randomly, and in the first part of my own survey of stellar evolution to 1950, I would like to explain the significance of those dates.
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Gingerich, O. (1995). Report on the Progress in Stellar Evolution to 1950. In: van der Kruit, P.C., Gilmore, G. (eds) Stellar Populations. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 164. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0125-7_1
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