Word: astrophysicist
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...Mack's work is extraordinarily legitimate," says Rudy Schields, a friend of Mack's and an astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
Luckily, I was saved by a kindly astronomy professor who taught my Core class and took me in. I certainly have no plans to be an astrophysicist, but when I took the job I told myself that it was to explore a field that had always interested me. But wasn't the real reason so that when people asked, "What did you do with your summer?" I could reply, "I worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics"? I even bought a T-shirt to prove...
...hour, the attention of a group of wheelchair-bound teenagers in a Seattle auditorium has been completely focused on the man seated in front of them. Such self-control would be unusual for teens in any case; it's even more impressive considering that the speaker is a theoretical astrophysicist. Stephen Hawking has a few advantages, though. For one, the 51-year-old Cambridge University professor is probably the best-known scientist in the world. For another, Hawking is in a wheelchair too, the victim of a degenerative nerve disease that has left him as paralyzed as his youthful audience...
...just ask Gary J. Melnick, a Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist and a lecturer on astronomy, how current NASA projects compare with those of decades past...
Just what this mystery matter is made of has been the subject of some truly wild speculation. "The list of candidates," says Rocky Kolb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, "depends on whether or not you believe in a WYSIWYG universe." WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get" (dark-matter aficionados are inordinately fond of acronyms). WYSIWYG types like to assume that dark matter is most likely made up of the same basic building blocks as ordinary, visible matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. One possibility is that dark matter is nothing more exotic...