Word: astrophysicist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oslo, comes to Harvard to lecture throughout this year and to work in the Harvard Observatory. He will give a course in cosmic physics, and will lecture before the course in Descriptive Astronomy. Although only 33 years of age, he is renowned as an accomplished mathematician and an outstanding astrophysicist...
...Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D. C., chose last week a new secretary (i.e., commander-in-chief), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot. Technically, he is an astrophysicist. To a few laymen, he is known as the man who has spent his adulthood studying the sun. Why? Because he wishes to forecast weather, weeks or months in advance, by discovering what the gases around the sun have to do with its heat radiation; also to find some feasible means of harnessing the sun's energy in man-made machines...