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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This property has Bahcall and other physicists speaking in superlatives about S.N.O., because it will allow the device to solve one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Known as the solar neutrino problem, it was discovered back in the 1960s. According to calculations originally made by Bahcall, the nuclear fusion reactions at the sun's core should be generating about 200 trillion trillion trillion electron neutrinos every second. But when physicists set out to find them, they were shocked to see evidence of only about a third that number. Among the possible explanations: perhaps scientists didn't understand nuclear physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHOST HUNTERS | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Kaczynski was a mathematics concentrator at Harvard in the 1960s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unabomber Suspect in Custody | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...resigned in June 1969 and apparently gave up math, according to the department chair from the late 1960s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unabomber Suspect in Custody | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

Theodore J. Kaczynski '62, who was an assistant mathematics professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, is allegedly responsible for at least two murders and a slew of casualties since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unabomber Suspect in Custody | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

Over time, the acts grew wilder and the clothing got skimpier, culminating in several productions during the mid 1960s that took the campus by storm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams | 4/2/1996 | See Source »

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