Remembering Edith Alice Müller

Front Matter....Pages i-4
Foreword....Pages 5-5
Edith Alice Müller (1918–1995)....Pages 6-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-10
The Life of Edith A. Müller: Personal and Professional Aspects....Pages 11-16
Meeting with Edith Müller....Pages 17-18
Starting with the Sun and Edith Müller....Pages 18-21
I Knew Edith for Nearly Half a Century....Pages 21-28
From Zürich to the IAU.... Laughs and Duties....Pages 28-32
Edith in Cambridge and Ireland....Pages 32-33
From a Semester in Cambridge....Pages 34-34
Friends in Ann Arbor....Pages 35-40
Within the Ann Arbor Community....Pages 40-42
Coffee Breaks in Ann Arbor....Pages 43-44
An Attractive Little House....Pages 44-45
From a Summer School in Michigan....Pages 45-46
Around the Chemical Elements....Pages 47-49
From Ann Arbor Onwards.......Pages 49-52
The Right Balance.......Pages 53-54
Back to Switzerland at Geneva....Pages 55-60
The Privilege of Having Been EAM’s Collaborator....Pages 60-63
The Solar Lithium Story....Pages 64-66
At Tucson, Looking at the Solar System....Pages 66-67
Remembering Edith Alicia....Pages 68-80
From the Solar Iron Abundance to the Secretariat of the International Astronomical Union....Pages 80-82
Kitt Peak, Mc Math, the Sun and Joso....Pages 82-84
From One Joso to Another.......Pages 84-84
Edith Back in Andalusia....Pages 85-87
Montréal, the “Joch”, the Canaries.......Pages 87-88
How the Entropy is Increasing!....Pages 89-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-92
The IAU Tribute to Edith A. Müller (1918–1995)....Pages 92-94
One Great Lady Astronomer....Pages 94-96
A Legendary Polyglot... and Lovely Days....Pages 96-97
From One GS of the IAU to the Next.......Pages 98-99
Edith Müller, General Secretary, International Astronomical Union....Pages 99-106
From One G.A. to Another.......Pages 107-110
Edith and the IAU: One Big Family....Pages 111-113
Edith Müller at Work on the Planets.......Pages 114-114
Painful Memories and Welcome Sight at Geneva....Pages 115-115
Teaching Astronomy: Edith Müller and the IAU....Pages 115-117
Edith A. Müller and IAU Commission 46....Pages 117-123
Astronomy in Education, and... Swiss Watches....Pages 124-124
Front Matter....Pages 91-92
Brief Encounters, Here and There....Pages 125-126
My “Science Mother”....Pages 126-127
Do I Remember Edith Müller?....Pages 127-129
Tchaïkovsky, Pushkin... and the Sun....Pages 130-131
Edith Müller in Abastumani....Pages 131-132
Drinking Tea in Georgia....Pages 133-133
From our First Meeting she Confided in Me....Pages 134-135
Edith and the Giant Radiotelescope....Pages 136-136
From “Down Under”....Pages 136-136
In Geneva, One Day.......Pages 136-137
Edith A. Müller Missed in Japan....Pages 137-138
Back Matter....Pages 139-147