Word: astrophysicists
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These are the conclusions of a small, soft-spoken Hindu astrophysicist, Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the University of Chicago. Born in Lahore 32 years ago, he is a graduate of Madras and Cambridge Universities, a nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, who won a Nobel Prize (1930) for his studies on diffusion of light...
Last week, Astrophysicist Donald Howard Menzel of Harvard announced construction plans for the world's highest astronomical station to house the first U. S. coronagraph. Site of the new observatory is Climax, Colo., a hamlet of 1,500 souls, perched 11,300 feet high on a pass of the Great Divide. Chief advantage of Climax is a daily cloudburst, which lasts about an hour, washes the sky an intense blue, clear as any in the Western Hemisphere. No drifting motes of dust can settle on the coronagraph lens to mar the view...