Transcription: As well as undertaking ballistic calculations for the American army, he worked on the development of numerical method for determining the characteristics of eclipsing binary stars, a subject in which he was regarded as an expert. The rise of communism in Czechoslovakia ended his dreams of returning to his homeland. When a department of astronomy was established at the University of Manchester, he became its first professor and remained there until his death. When the Apollo project was first planned, it was realized that the Moon had not been sufficiently well mapped. Somehow or other, many as ... File Comment Made in Intimate Arts
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