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...late George R. Agassiz '84 this year left a trust fund that will probably pyramid $50,000 into over $12 million for research on animals...
...said yesterday that work is "already past the bulldozer stage." Building of the telescope house is proceeding rapidly at Agassiz Station. Ewen"s own firm is finishing the telescope's electronic receiver, while a Cohasset radar company has completed the tubular aluminum antenna (above...
...Agassiz telescope will further explore the second method. Formerly, telescopes could pick out only ionized hydrogen which recombined with free electrons and radiated light in the visible spectrum...
Using an equatorial mount (one of the axes parallel to the polar axis of the earth), the Agassiz radio telescope may be focused on a special spot in the sky for long periods of time, simply by compensating for the earth's rotation...
...Agassiz telescope will still not be the world's largest; the Dutch are erecting a 75-foot one and the English a 250 footer. The latter will be used at lower frequencies, however, and might transmit pulse to mars...