Aden Meinel
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Aden Meinel's Degrees
- PhD Astronomy University of Chicago
- Bachelors Physics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aden B. Meinel was an American astronomer. He retired in 1993 as a distinguished scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He also held the rank of professor emeritus at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences. His research interests have included upper atmospheric physics, glass technology, optical design, instrumentation and space systems.
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Published Works
- Applied Solar Energy: An Introduction (1998) (184)
- OH Emission Bands in the Spectrum of the Night Sky. II. (1950) (134)
- Doppler-Shifted Auroral Hydrogen Emission. (1951) (126)
- Aperture synthesis using independent telescopes. (1970) (89)
- Cloudy Days Ahead for Solar Energy (1979) (78)
- The scaling relationship between telescope cost and aperture size for very large telescopes (2004) (65)
- Sunsets, Twilights and Evening Skies (1983) (54)
- Late Twilight Glow of the Ash Stratum from the Eruption of Agung Volcano (1963) (53)
- Physics looks at solar energy (1972) (49)
- Catalog of emission lines in astrophysical objects (1969) (44)
- Laboratory Excitation of the Emission Spectrum of a Nova. (1964) (44)
- The Height of the Nightglow by the Van Rhijn Method. (1955) (41)
- Controlled Figuring of Optical Surfaces by Energetic Ionic Beams (1965) (40)
- Hydride Emission Bands in the Spectrum of the Night Sky. (1950) (39)
- O_{2} Emission Bands in the Infrared Spectrum of the Night Sky. (1950) (37)
- A statistical analysis of low‐latitude aurorae (1954) (35)
- Inflatable Membrane Mirrors for Optical Passband Imagery (2000) (34)
- Large sparse-aperture space optical systems (2002) (33)
- Height of the Glow Stratum from the Eruption of Agung on Bali (1964) (33)
- Collisional Excitation of Atomic Spectra in Accelerated Beams of Light Elements (1966) (33)
- The Auroral Spectrum from 6200 TO 8900 A. (1951) (32)
- An Atlas of low-dispersion grating stellar spectra (1968) (32)
- The spectrum of the airglow and the aurora (1951) (31)
- Stratospheric Dust-Aerosol Event of November 1974 (1975) (31)
- System Concept For A Moderate Cost Large Deployable Reflector (LDR) (1986) (26)
- A Note on Auroral Motions. (1953) (25)
- On the Entry into the Earth's Atmosphere of 57-Kev Protons during Auroral Activity (1950) (25)
- A New Band System of N^{+}_{2} in the Infrared Auroral Spectrum. (1950) (24)
- Multiple Aperture Telescope Diffraction Images (1983) (23)
- The Analysis of Auroral Emission Bands from the A^{2}II State of N^{+}_{2}. (1951) (23)
- Two-stage optics : high-acuity performance from low-acuity optical systems (1992) (22)
- Identification of the 6560 A Emission in the Spectrum of the Night Sky. (1950) (22)
- Optical phased array configuration for an extremely large telescope. (2004) (21)
- Cost-Scaling Laws Applicable To Very Large Optical Telescopes (1979) (21)
- THE NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRUM OF THE NIGHT SKY AND AURORA (1948) (20)
- Large membrane space optics: imagery and aberrations of diffractive and holographic achromatized optical elements of high diffraction order (2002) (18)
- Ultralightweight and hyperthin rollable primary mirror for space telescopes (2000) (18)
- An F/2 Cassegrain Camera. (1956) (17)
- Volcanic Sunset-Glow Stratum: Origin (1967) (16)
- Cost relationships for nonconventional telescope structural configurations (1982) (16)
- Cost Scaling Laws Applicable To Very Large Optical Telescopes (1979) (16)
- Aspheric Field Correctors for Large Telescopes. (1953) (15)
- Evidence for the Entry into the Upper Atmosphere of High-speed Protons during Auroral Activity. (1950) (15)
- Spectral Classification with Exceedingly Low Dispersion. (1954) (13)
- An overview of the technological possibilities of future telescopes. (1978) (13)
- Laboratory Ionic-Impact Emission Spectra. (1953) (12)
- Laboratory Reproduction of Auroral Emissions by Proton Bombardment. (1952) (12)
- Is it time for a new look at solar energy (1971) (12)
- Wave-front correctors by diamond turning. (1986) (12)
- OPTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY WITH A VAN DE GRAAFF ACCELERATOR (1964) (12)
- Self-null corrector test for telescope hyperbolic secondaries. (1983) (12)
- Minimum-cost 4-m telescope developed at October 1979 Nanjing study of telescope design and construction. (1980) (11)
- ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS FROM SPACE VEHICLES (1959) (11)
- Parametric dependencies of high-diffraction-order achromatized aplanatic configurations that employ circular or crossed-linear diffractive optical elements. (2002) (11)
- Zero-Coma Condition For Decentered And Tilted Secondary Mirror In Cassegrain/Nasmyth Configuration (1984) (10)
- Four-mirror spherical primary submillimeter telescope design. (1984) (10)
- A New O_{2} Band in the Infrared Auroral Spectrum. (1954) (10)
- Low-Latitude Noctilucent Cloud of 15 June 1963 (1963) (10)
- Strong permitted OI and NI lines in the infrared auroral spectrum (1950) (10)
- N2+ Emission in Lightning (1964) (8)
- Trajectory of the Mt. St. Augustine 1976 Eruption Ash Cloud (1976) (8)
- The Spectra of the Night Sky and the Aurora (1949) (8)
- Support and testing of large astronomical mirrors (1968) (7)
- Spherical primary telescope with aspheric correction at a small internal pupil. (2000) (7)
- Comparison of lens and Fresnel null correctors. (2001) (7)
- Photothermal solar energy conversion and the optical properties of solids (1993) (7)
- Precision segmented reflectors for space applications (1990) (6)
- Solar Photothermal Power Generation (1976) (6)
- Aberrations of an IR chopping secondary. (1984) (6)
- Origin of the Continuum in the Night-Sky Spectrum. (1953) (6)
- Diamond Turning Wavefront Correctors: Opening New Optical Design Flexibilities (1987) (5)
- Very large optics of the future (1986) (5)
- A Large Multiple-Mirror Telescope (MMT) Project (1972) (5)
- Nightglow Heights : a Reinterpretation of Old Data. (1955) (5)
- Design considerations for a 10-m optical table telescope. (1980) (5)
- A 1.8-m lightweight Doubly Asymmetric Equatorial Telescope Design. (1971) (5)
- Self-null corrector test for telescope hyperbolic secondaries: comments. (1983) (5)
- Optical Testing Of Off-Axis Parabolic Segments Without Auxiliary Optical Elements (1989) (5)
- Systematic Auroral Motions. (1955) (4)
- A Symposium on Support and Testing of Large Astronomical Mirrors (1966) (4)
- Compact Nasmyth focal reducer camera. (1985) (4)
- Excitation Mechanisms in the Aurora (1952) (4)
- Wind Deflection Compensated, Zero-Coma Telescope Truss Geometries (1986) (4)
- Applied solar energy: An introduction /2nd edition/ (1977) (4)
- [Shoulder injury and axillary paresis (author's transl)]. (1976) (4)
- Spectrophotometry of Nova Herculis 1960. (1963) (4)
- The optical sciences center: its history, organization, and relation to government and industry. (1971) (3)
- Design of Reflecting Telescopes (1961) (3)
- Inflation-deployed camera and hyper-thin mirrors (1998) (3)
- On the Ultraviolet Continuous Spectrum of B Stars. (1963) (3)
- Determination of the Hubble Space Telescope effective conic-constant error from direct image measurements. (1993) (3)
- A Large Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) Project (1972) (3)
- Optical System Design Study For The University Of Texas 300-Inch Telescope (1982) (3)
- History of Applications (2018) (3)
- An Overview Of Optical Telescope Technology (1985) (3)
- Upgrading Telescopes By Active Pupil Wavefront Correction (1986) (3)
- Low-Latitude Noctilucent Cloud of 2 November 1963 (1964) (2)
- A System Concept For A Moderate Cost Large Deployable Reflector (LDR) (1986) (2)
- Some Comments on Scaling Law Information Relating to Very Large Telescope Cost Goals (1980) (2)
- New Frontiers of Astronomical Technology: Technological developments challenge the astronomer, both from the ground and in space. (1961) (2)
- Chapter 6 – Astronomical Telescopes (1969) (2)
- FAST: a folded astronomical space telescope (1994) (2)
- Optical Phenomena in the Atmosphere (1966) (2)
- Limits To Size For Terrestrial Telescopes: Two-Stage Optics (1986) (2)
- Active Wavefront Control Challenges Of The Nasa Large Deployable Reflector (LDR) (1989) (2)
- The National Observatory at Kitt Peak (1958) (2)
- Optimum solution for spherical primary mirror with two and three aspheric corrector plates located near focus. (1981) (1)
- Aden and Marjorie Meinel's China trip October-November 1979. (1980) (1)
- Rainbows, Haloes, and Glories. By R. Greenler (1981) (1)
- SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION FROM RATIO SPECTRA (1959) (1)
- AN F/2 FOCAL REDUCER FOR THE 60-INCH U. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY TELESCOPE. (1968) (1)
- Atmospheric Emissions. Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute, Ås, Norway, July-Aug. 1968. Billy M. McCormac and Anders Omholt, Eds. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1969. xii, 564 pp., illus. $25.95 (1970) (1)
- Galaxy collisions and ordinary dark matter (2007) (1)
- Bernard Seraphin and novel solar energy materials: In the beginning (1994) (1)
- Multiple Mirror Telescopes of the Future (1979) (1)
- Extremely large sparse aperture telescopes? A chevy instead of a Mercedes (2003) (1)
- 9 – Concentrating Collectors (1977) (1)
- Perception For A Large Deployable Reflector Telescope (1983) (1)
- Infrared and the search for extrasolar planets (1991) (1)
- Wavefront control of large optical systems (1990) (1)
- Daylight and Its Spectrum. S. T. Henderson. Elsevier, New York, 1970. x, 278 pp., illus. $15.75 (1970) (1)
- Infrared Color Index of M31 at 2.2 Microns. (1963) (1)
- Large optical telescopes of the 21st Century. (1978) (1)
- Optical design of a solar collector for the advanced solar thermal electric conversion/process heat program (1977) (1)
- Aberrations of an IR chopping secondary: authors' reply to comment 1. (1985) (1)
- Error-Compensated Telescope (1989) (1)
- Protons and the Aurora (1954) (1)
- Symposium on Instrumental Astronomy: Introduction (1964) (1)
- Continuous H2 Emission in B-Star Atmospheres. (1962) (1)
- INFRARED AURORAL EMISSION BANDS FROM THE ${\rm A^{2} \pi}$ STATE OF ${\rm N^{+}_{2}}$ (1951) (1)
- Progress in development and application of selective surfaces (1976) (1)
- Energy transfer in a large-scale thermal solar power farm (1976) (1)
- Air-stable selective surfaces for solar energy collectors. Final report, 1 Apr 1974--31 Oct 1975 (1975) (1)
- Steward Observatory Folded-Camera Grating Spectrograph. (1963) (1)
- THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE AURORA. (1954) (1)
- Galactic research with small Schmidt cameras (1956) (1)
- a Report on a 4-METER Minimum-Cost Telescope Developed at the October 1979 Nanjing Study of Telescope Design and Construction (1980) (1)
- 9. Instruments and Techniques (Instruments et Techniques) (1976) (0)
- Energy for the future: The world view (1983) (0)
- Truss (8 Members) (2017) (0)
- Cameras Would Withstand High Accelerations (1992) (0)
- Attaching Precise Mirrors To Lightweight Supports (1989) (0)
- The optical sciences center of the university of Arizona part 1. (1970) (0)
- Thousand Astronomical Unit Voyage: A Deep Space Parallax Opportunity (1986) (0)
- High Resolution Optical Space Telescopes (1962) (0)
- DETECTION OF MOLECULAR HYDROGEN IN STELLAR ATMOSPHERES (1962) (0)
- Design Specifications for an 84 and 100-Inch Telescope (1966) (0)
- Distributed solar power systems - An option (1978) (0)
- Research in Stellar Spectroscopy (1964) (0)
- Hyperbolic primary telescope configuration. (1984) (0)
- MAGNETIC FIELDS OF GALACTIC DIMENSIONS (1953) (0)
- ON THE SPECTRUM OF LIGHTNING IN THE VENUS ATMOSPHERE (1962) (0)
- President's Science Message. (1972) (0)
- Aberrations of an IR chopping secondary: authors' reply to comment 2 and continuation of authors' reply to comment 1. (1985) (0)
- President's Science Message (1972) (0)
- Briefing on solar power farms (1972) (0)
- Solar photothermal power conversion (1974) (0)
- National solar power facility - 2076 AD (1971) (0)
- Solar thermal application study: status, economics and priorities (1973) (0)
- Performance optimization of the ASR optical module (1982) (0)
- Optical Spectra from Fast Ion Beams. (1964) (0)
- Preliminary Spectrophotometric Observations of Nova Herculis, 1960. (1960) (0)
- Non-Darkness: Daylight and Its Spectrum . S. T. Henderson. Elsevier, New York, 1970. x, 278 pp., illus. $15.75. (1970) (0)
- Solar Neighborhood Astrometric Parallax Survey (1986) (0)
- Mirrors - Fabrication, processing, testing and tolerances (1984) (0)
- A Wide-Angle All-Mirror Ultraviolet Camera (1966) (0)
- Optical figuring process, Dupont 2.6-m telescope. (1982) (0)
- Large Telescope Adaptive Optics Requirements for Astrophysics and Space Missions (1992) (0)
- Thermal performance of a linear solar collector. Paper 72-WA/Sol-7 (1972) (0)
- Twenty years of physics: Optics (1968) (0)
- Making Optical Correctors by Diamond Turning (1987) (0)
- Evolution of Ground and Space based Optical Systems during the Past 30 Years (1988) (0)
- Rare halos, mirages, anomalous rainbows and related electro-magnetic phenomena: A catalog of geophysical anomalies: Compiled by William R. Corliss. Sourcebook Project, Glen Arm, Md. 1984. 238 pp. (1984) (0)
- Observations of the Elf Lunar Flare (1965) (0)
- Intercomparison of ground-based and space solar flux measurements (1974) (0)
- Very large telescopes using siderostats. (1978) (0)
- Rollable Thin Shell Composite-Material Paraboloidal Mirrors (2003) (0)
- 9. Instruments and Techniques (1970) (0)
- Photon Statistics Limitations in Precision Astrometry (1986) (0)
- Optical and infrared space optics challenges. (1987) (0)
- Prospects of solar energy (1981) (0)
- Thermal conversion offers potential in solar energy production (1973) (0)
- Report on the Kitt Peak Observatory. (1958) (0)
- Optimum solution for spherical primary mirror with two and three aspheric corrector plates located near focus. Part 2. (1982) (0)
- Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize—Past Recipients (2016) (0)
- Research in the Optical Sciences. (1981) (0)
- Deployable Reflector Configurations (1983) (0)
- Optical challenges for the detection of extra-solar planets (1991) (0)
- A report on the National Astronomical Observatory facility. (1957) (0)
- Photovoltaics' Promise Still Less Than Sunny? (1994) (0)
- Solar energy as an option for Arizona (1973) (0)
- Laser Agile Illumination For Object Tracking And Classification Feasibility Study (1988) (0)
- Keynote Address: A view in the mirror-or through the looking glass (1985) (0)
- Fabrication Of Large RZ Glass Discs (1965) (0)
- Solar path: how soon (1978) (0)
- Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Symposium (1997) (0)
- A NEW DESIGN CLASS OF WIDE-FIELD CAMERA FOR WIDE PASS-BAND USES (1966) (0)
- Telescope Structures: An Evolutionary Overview (1987) (0)
- The University of Arizona 90-inch telescope. (1975) (0)
- SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CASSEGRAIN INSTRUMENTS INCLUDING THE CASSEGRAIN OBSERVING PLATFORM, STEWARD OBSERVATORY 90-INCH TELESCOPE (1967) (0)
- The Small Module Fixed Mirror Distributed Focus (FMDF) Photothermal Concentrator Study (1981) (0)
- THE HISTORY OF OSA:Reminiscences: Aden Returns from the War (2009) (0)
- Book-Review - Sunsets Twilights and Evening Skies (1984) (0)
- An Autocollimating F/1 CAMERA For Use With Echelle Spectrographs Using Image Converters (1979) (0)
- LABORATORY. VOLUME I, NUMBERS 12-13 (1962) (0)
- Deployable space telescopes for planetary and astronomical missions (1994) (0)
- A View In The Mirror--Or Through The Looking Glass (1986) (0)
- Solar energy as an energy option for Arizona (1974) (0)
- Deployable reflector configurations. [for space telescope (1983) (0)
- Solar power plants will solve world's energy problems (1972) (0)
- FY69 Applied Optics Research Report (1969) (0)
- Optical Interfaces In Solar Energy Utilization (1974) (0)
- At sunset (1987) (0)
- Ratio spectra for G8 stars. (1959) (0)
- Thousand Astronomical Unit Voyage: A Deep Space Mission (1986) (0)
- The Lunar Configurable Array Telescope (LCAT) (1989) (0)
- Research applied to solar-thermal power conversion. Volume II. Final report, June 1, 1971--January 31, 1973 (1973) (0)
- Evidence of a magnetic sheath around a jet from NGC 6543 (2008) (0)
- Automatic Optical Designing for Astronomy (1965) (0)
- Corrective Optics For Camera On Telescope (1994) (0)
- Energy/GNP trajectory study: demonstrates relationship between economic growth and energy consumption, shows similarity of new energy-to-new GNP conversion efficiencies among nations (1978) (0)
- Solar energy - the possible dream (1972) (0)
- Design Considerations for a Large Aperture Orbital Telescope. Report. (1961) (0)
- Research applied to solar-thermal power conversion. Volume 1. Executive summary. Final report, June 1, 1971--January 31, 1973 (1973) (0)
- Program for Electro-Optical Aerospace Surveillance Supported by Work at Cloudcroft Electro-Optical Experimental Station. (1969) (0)
- THE HISTORY OF OSA:Reminiscences: Aden Goes to War (2009) (0)
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