Word: bok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detailed series of notes prepared to provide scientists throughout the world with a summary of progress made in astronomy during 1941, Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy attached to the College Observatory, enumerated all the important advances made in the science this year...
...Bok specifically discussed scientific research in the fields of the Solar System, Astrophysics, the Milky Way and Galaxies, and ended his report with a general commentary in which he said that the effects of the war are beginning to be felt more and more in all the sciences, but particularly astronomy...
Astronomers of the Harvard Observatory are cooperating closely with Mexican astronomers in planning the program and equipment of Mexico's new National Observatory, now nearing completion at Tonanzintla, 80 miles east of Mexico City, stated Professor Bart J. Bok of the Harvard Observatory yesterday, in an article in "Sky and Telescope." Professor Bok has returned after two months as major American consultant at the new Mexican observatory...
...observatory is significant in many ways," writes Professor Bok. "It represents first of all an important addition to the list of American observatories. . . In Mexico it stands as a symbol of the new Mexico. . . and for us in the United States it stands in a way as a symbol of Pan-Americanism...
Professor Bart J. Bok of the Harvard Observatory concluded the symposium by deploring the present attitude of scientists toward pan-Americanism, and suggested remedies...