Word: bok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moors-John P. Elder, Classics; Myron P. Gilmore, History; Albert J. Guerard, English; Burrhus F. Skinner, Psychology; and Bart J. Bok, Astronomy, (Bok, who is leaving for South Africa in February, accepted for the next school year...
Leverett House sophomores held an exclusive get-together dinner in the House dining hall last night. The 28-man House staff and the House committee were honored guests. Leigh Hoadley, Master of the House, and Bart J. Bok, associate director of the College Observatory, spoke on the history and advantages of Leverett...
...will fill out the uncompleted term of office of Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy, who resigned as a representative of the Harvard faculties...
...England Committee for the United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization sponsored speeches by Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress; Mildred McAfee Horton, retiring president of Wellesley College; Bart. J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Aplied Astronomy and associate director of the Observatory; and Robert S. Smith 2G, member of the executive board of the United States delegation to UNESCO...
...Bok measures the distance of a star by studying its color, which changes as the light passes through the dust clouds of space. Shapley looks at variable stars, which grow brighter and dimmer with a regular period. This period often depends on the absolute brightness of the star; when Shapley knows the absolute brightness and the brightness as seen from the earth, he can easily determine the star's distance...