This review of the most up-to-date observational and theoretical information concerning the chemical evolution of the Milky Way compares the abundances derived from field stars and clusters, giving information on the abundances and dynamics of gas.
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The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way: Some Important Facts.- S/¦Á/Fe
Abundance Ratios in Galactic Metal Poor Stars.- S/?/Abundance Ratios in Halo
Field Stars: is there a Globular Cluster Connection?.- Early Galactic
Evolution of Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen.- The Origin and Kinematical
Evolution of SMR Stars.- Abundances in Supernovae.- Obser-vations of
Candidate SMR Stars.- Planetary Nebulae: Abundances and Abundance Gradients.-
Planetary Nebulae as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Populations.- Clump
Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood.- Mixing Along the Red Giant Branch in
Metal-Poor Field Stars.- The Metal Abundance of Galactic Cepheids as Derived
from their Pulsational Properties.- Wolf-Rayet Stars, Binaries, Black Holes.-
The Evolution of Binaries.- The Origin of X-Ray Pulsars in Binary Systems.-
Metal Abundances in Globular Clusters.- On the Globular Cluster IMF below
1M®.- The Effect of CNO and Enhanced a-Elements on Globular Cluster Stars.-
HST-UV Observations of Stellar Clusters: Looking for BSS.- HST-WFPC2
Photometry of the Globular Cluster NGC288Binary Systems, Blue Stragglers and
Very Blue Stars.- Infrared Observations of Stellar Clusters.- Can Mira
Variables Tell us the Chemical Abundances in Stellar Systems?.- Abundances in
Open Star Clusters: What we have to work with.- Galactic Globular Clusters
Relative Ages:Clues on the Milky Way Early Evolution.- Infrared Observations
of Globular Clusters.- Absolute Magnitude of RR Lyrae in Globular Clusters
from Pulsational Properties.- Galactic Globular Clusters as Calibrators of
Synthetic Line Indices.- Old Open Clusters as Tracers of Galactic Evolution.-
Abundances of Globular Clusters in the Galactic Bulge.- The Globular Clusters
and Field Stars in the Galactic Bulge.- The Initial Mass Function of
theGalactic Bulge down to 0.15M®.- Radial Variables as Tracers of Stellar
Populations.- Abundance Gradients along the Galactic Disk.- The Age of the
Galactic Disk.- Compact High Velocity Clouds at High Resolutions.- The
Present Rate of Supernovae.- The Role of Classical Novae in the Galactic
Nucleo-synthesis.- Faint Stars in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy:
Implications for the Stellar IMF.- Evolution of Heavy Elements in wCen: the
Puzzle of s-Enrichments.- Stellar Evolution with Rotation.- The Explosive
Yields of Massive Stars.- Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars.- Yields from Type la
Supernovae.- The Evolution of Zero Metal Intermediate Mass Stars.- The Effect
of External Pollution on the Evolution of Low-Mass Metal-Free Stars.-
Explosive Nucleosynthesis of Massive Stars. The Effect of the Metallicity.-
Chemical Yields from Low-and Intermediate-Mass Stars.- AGB Stars New Models:
Lithium Production in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds.- Observational
Constraints to the Evolution of Massive Star.- The Chemical Evolution of the
Milky Way.- Reconstructing the Star Formation History of the Galaxy.-
Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Halo.- Stellar Yields and
Chemical Evolution.- The Influence of Nova Nucleosynthesis on the Chemical
Evolution of the Galaxy.- The Evolution of the Milky Way Disk.- The effects
of a Variable IMF on the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy.- Metallicity
Effects on Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution.- On
the Abundance Gradients in the Galactic Disk.- Formation of Disk Galaxies: on
the Angular Momentum Problem, the Tully-Fisher Relation and
Magnetohydro-dynamics.- Has the IMF of EGs Always been the Same?.-
Concluding Remarks.- Concluding Address.
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