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• Cruikshank, Dale P. (1974). “20th‐Century Astronomer.”Sky & Telescope 47, no. 3: 159–164.

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• Doel, Ronald E. (1996).Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Science, 1920–1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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• Green, D. W. E. (1999). “Book Review – Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Research.”International Comet Quarterly 21: 44–46. (Includes an extensive historical commentary on Kuiper's poorly understood approach to small objects beyond Pluto.)

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• Kuiper, Gerard P. (1937). “On the Hydrogen Content of Clusters.”Astrophysical Journal 86: 176–197. (Kuiper included an early version of a color‐magnitude diagram for galactic clusters.)

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• ——— (1938). “The Empirical Mass‐Luminosity Relation.”Astrophysical Journal 88: 472–507. (Kuiper here clearly defined the mass‐luminosity relation for main‐sequence stars, with white dwarfs departing from this group.)

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• ——— (1941). “On the Interpretation of β Lyrae and Other Close Binaries.”Astrophysical Journal 93: 133–177. (Here Kuiper introduced the term “contact binary” for a case where one star accretes matter from its neighbor.)

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• ——— (1944). “Titan: A Satellite with an Atmosphere.”Astrophysical Journal 100: 378–383. (Account of his discovery of methane in Titan's atmosphere.)

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• ——— (1949). “The Fifth Satellite of Uranus” and “The Second Satellite of Neptune.”Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 61: 129, 175–176. (Kuiper's accounts of his discoveries of Uranus V [Miranda] and Neptune II [Nereid].)

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• ——— (1949). “Survey of Planetary Atmospheres.” InThe Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets, edited by G. Kuiper, pp. 304–345. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Second of Kuiper's two papers in a symposium proceedings edited by himself, deemed influential for the following generation of Solar System planetary scientists; a revised edition was printed in 1952.)

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• ——— (1956).“The Formation of the Planets.” Parts 1–3.Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 50: 57–68, 105–121, 158–176. (Extensive three‐part paper detailing Kuiper's thinking on the origin of the Solar System, including citations to all his earlier key work on the topic.)

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• ——— (1964). “The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.” Parts 1 and 2.Sky & Telescope 27: 4–8, 88–92. (Kuiper's two‐part article on the early history and results of the LPL.)

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• Kuiper, Gerard P., W. Wilson, and R. J. Cashman. (1947). “An Infrared Stellar Spectrometer.”Astrophysical Journal 106: 243–254. (An account of an infrared spectrometer, from wartime technology involving new PbS cells, designed for attachment to a large telescope, and early results.)

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• Kuiper, Gerard P.et al. (1958). “Survey of Asteroids.”Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 3, no. 32: 289–428. (With six other coauthors, Kuiper presented the results of a large astrometric and photometric survey of minor planets, from photographic plates taken at McDonald Observatory in 1950–1952.)

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• Sagan, Carl (1974). “Obituary: Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905–1973).”Icarus 22: 117–118.

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