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Jan Oort is the same age as our century, the century of brilliant astronomical discoveries. Contemporaries, true, are apt to underestimate the achievements of the past and to attach particular importance to the events they witness. In fact, however, astronomy and physics begin developing rapidly more than three hundred years ago, and there are no grounds to consider the 20th century to be distinguished in the rate of growth, striking discoveries, etc. But this is another topic, and here I shall restrict myself to the remark that a mere enumeration of the achievements connected with the name of Oort — galactic rotation, atomic-hydrogen radio astronomy, study of the central region of the Galaxy, the Crab Nebula, a number of galaxies, comets, etc. — speaks for itself.
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Ginzburg, V.L. (2001). On High-Energy Astrophysics (On the 80th Birthday of Jan Oort). In: The Physics of a Lifetime. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04455-1_29
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