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- ABSTRACT
- 1.THE BEGINNING
- 2.THE EARLY YEARS
- 2.1.The First Palomar Discoveries
- 2.2.Baade's Program Proposed
- 3.STELLAR EVOLUTION
- 3.1.Stars Move Off the Main Sequence
Rather Than Up or Down
- 3.2.The Chemical Composition
Connection
- 4.CALIBRATION OF THE CEPHEID P-L
RELATION
- 5.COSMOLOGY
- 5.1.Large-Scale Distribution
- 5.2.The Velocity-Distance Relation
- 6.THE EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE SCALE
- 6.1.The First Step from the Local
Group to NGC 2403
- 6.2.The Steps Series from NGC 2403 to
the Global Expansion Field
- 7.EARLY DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH ENERGY
ASTROPHYSICS
- 7.1.Initial Identification of
Radio Sources
- 7.2.The Discovery of Quasars and
the AGN Phenomena
- 7.3.M82 and NGC 1275 as Prototypes of
Starburst Galaxies and Other Violent Events
- 8.CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES