Word: astrophysicist
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...Quasars light up because gas is falling down toward them, which heats up through friction like a rocket reentering the atmosphere,” said Martin S. Elvis, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and a co-author of the study...
...does when it is stirred in a cup. In perfect deference to the laws of physics, the metal's highly reflective surface takes the form of a parabola, the shape of solid mirrors used in conventional telescopes to focus starlight into a sharp image. Says Ermanno Borra, the Laval astrophysicist who built it: "It's a wonderfully simple arrangement...
...unkempt, gray-bearded man might pass for any other homeless inhabitant of Lafayette Square Park, across from the White House. But the leaflets he passes out say otherwise: CHARLES HYDER, PH.D AND FASTING. Hyder, 56, an astrophysicist and former NASA researcher, says he will starve himself to death to dramatize his call for dismantling all nuclear warheads by the year 2000. Once 310 Ibs., Hyder has lost a third of that weight after more than 70 days on salt and water. If the Government does not meet his demands, he insists, "I'll die. I know what moves the system...
DIED. Donald Osterbrock, 82, courtly astrophysicist and longtime director of the University of California's Lick Observatory who mapped out the shapes of stars and galaxies; in Santa Cruz, Calif. A winner of such honors as the British Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal--almost never bestowed on an American--he determined that the Milky Way is shaped like a spiral and unearthed the processes that explain how the sun keeps its shape and size...
...wrong (September); in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (due in January) by self-described "atheist-reductionist-materialist" biologist Lewis Wolpert, religion is one of those impossible things; Victor Stenger, a physicist-astronomer, has a book coming out titled God: The Failed Hypothesis. Meanwhile, Ann Druyan, widow of archskeptical astrophysicist Carl Sagan, has edited Sagan's unpublished lectures on God and his absence into a book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, out this month...