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Presentation of the Herschel Medal to Wilson and Boggess

Lynden Bell, D.

Extinction in external galaxies.

Thompson, G. I.

It is suggested that there are only two general extinction laws, the galactic type and the linear SMC type. An attempt is made to show that the LMC extinction law is a composite of these two. The result is inconclusive due to the sensitivity of the constants of fit to the empirical data.