1956 Fredericton Encaenia
Beals, Carlyle Smith
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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Carlyle Smith Beals standing in front of the Brydone Jack Observatory
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Source: UA PC-4 no.6c(1)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1956
CARLYLE SMITH BEALS
to be Doctor of Science
No single Canadian can boast such widely ranging contacts as the Dominion Astronomer. He enters our homes daily as an intimate friend with the one o'clock time-signal. He informs us officially when we have had an earthquake. He informs us also when stars millions of light years away have had an analogous experience. They are apparently all one to him, although the latter demands more abstruse calculations.
His researches in the field of stellar spectra and interstellar matter are considered by the scientific world monumental and, first among high honours, have won him membership in the Royal Society of London.
It is not often that such brilliance goes with administrative genius. Yet since his present appointment in 1947 he has made of a routine observatory one of the leading research institutions of Canada.
To the layman a more obvious monument to the performance of his achievements would seem that he persists as Dominion Astronomer in a Dominion Observatory in a country that has itself ceased (except in certain die-hard communities) to be a Dominion.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
CARLYLE SMITH BEALS
to be Doctor of Science
No single Canadian can boast such widely ranging contacts as the Dominion Astronomer. He enters our homes daily as an intimate friend with the one o'clock time-signal. He informs us officially when we have had an earthquake. He informs us also when stars millions of light years away have had an analogous experience. They are apparently all one to him, although the latter demands more abstruse calculations.
His researches in the field of stellar spectra and interstellar matter are considered by the scientific world monumental and, first among high honours, have won him membership in the Royal Society of London.
It is not often that such brilliance goes with administrative genius. Yet since his present appointment in 1947 he has made of a routine observatory one of the leading research institutions of Canada.
To the layman a more obvious monument to the performance of his achievements would seem that he persists as Dominion Astronomer in a Dominion Observatory in a country that has itself ceased (except in certain die-hard communities) to be a Dominion.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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