Welcome to Carolian Astronomy Society in Kidderminster
Your local Astronomy Group in the Wyre Forest and surrounding areas.
The Carolian Astronomy Society (CAS) is based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire UK. Membership is open to any individuals who support and wish to further the Objectives of the Society. We welcome new members, particularly the less experienced and newcomers to our fascinating hobby.
If you would like to email us please send to info@carolianastro.co.uk, or to speak to us please telephone 07821 896 304 (Michael Bryce – Social Media Secretary).
Next Carolian AS Meeting:
Carolian Astronomy Society meet at Oldfield Hall, King Charles I School, Comberton Road, KIDDERMINSTER. DY10 1XA. Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Astronomy and Space. Come along and meet other Astronomers in your local area.
Wednesday 9 October
Our next meeting takes place on Wednesday 9 October at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:15. Our Speaker for tonight is Mike Frost. Mike will be his talk entitled “Erwin Finlay Freundlich, Einstein’s Collaborator”. Mike is a long time friend of the Society and his talks are always well received. Detailas of his talk are as follows:
Erwin Finlay Freundlich, Einstein’s Collaborator – a talk by Mike Frost
Erwin Finlay Freundlich was a German astronomer. In the early years of his career he was a colleague of Albert Einstein, and was closely involved in the calculations and observations which proved Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
He then pursued a peripatetic career in Berlin, Istanbul and Prague. As World War 2 loomed, his family faced a terrifying journey across Europe to escape Hitler’s clutches. Freundlich ended up in Scotland, where he spent the rest of his academic career at St Andrews University.
Erwin’s is a life entwined in the great movements of the twentieth century – political, social, scientific and cultural. I’ve worked with his family and with people who knew him at St Andrews to bring you his story.
Wednesday 11 September
Our first meeting of the 2024 – 2025 Season takes place on Wednesday 11 September at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:15. As last time, our meeting venue is Oldfield Hall, King Charles I School. The speaker for the evening is our own David Hodgson who will give a presentation about George Isaak, Physicist and Astronomer.
From Wikipedia:
Isaak was born in Poland on 7 March 1933. His family moved to Germany after the Second World War and to Australia in 1950. Isaak studied at the University of Melbourne, achieving his Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1955 and Master of Science (MSc) in 1958. A spell in industry followed, in which Isaak worked for ICI in Australia 1959-1960 during which time he patented a spectrophotometer for very high-resolution optical spectroscopy, using the resonant scattering of light by atoms. In 1961 Isaak returned to science at the University of Birmingham from whom he received his PhD in 1966, and where he stayed until his retirement in 1996, at this time taking up an Adjunct Faculty position at the University of Minnesota. Isaak remained active in scientific endeavours until the time of his death. Isaak married once to Umit, a fellow physicist at Birmingham in 1964.
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