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In the after-dinner speech at the IAU Symposium 74 on Radio astronomy and cosmology held in Cambridge, UK, in August 1976, Oort told the following story (from my personal recollection): A traveler came through a village, where he noted an old man sitting in front of his house
Near Westerbork a gigantic Synthesis Radio Telescope was
being built, consisting of twelve dishes, [...]
It was going to be the biggest instrument in the world
and he expected a lot of it.
Harry Mulisch
I will never be an old man.
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
In: The discovery of Heaven.
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While the present book was nearing completion a commemorative volume was published celebrating the approaching 50th anniversary [367].
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Elbers attributed this to a letter of Oort to Bannier of December 15, 1965; her footnote 139 (171 in the PhD thesis version). Elbers agrees it actually was from Bannier to Oort on December 8.
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van der Kruit, P.C. (2019). Westerbork, Retirement and Beyond. In: Jan Hendrik Oort. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 459. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17801-7_14
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