Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument about whether the moon program is worth its cost was forgotten while the nation joined in the cheering. "This is a great day for science and a great day for the U.S.," exulted University of Arizona Professor Gerard Kuiper, head of a team of scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab, which prepared the shot. From all over the world flowed praise. "A stupendous achievement," said Kenneth Gatland of the British Interplanetary Society. Even Moscow joined the chorus...
...Committee on Government Research largely agree that too little Government money is being spent on basic research, too much on projects aimed at space or military hardware. "Of course, the appliedresearch programs in nuclear physics, space and defense are important to the national purpose," says President Lee DuBridge of Caltech. "But precisely because these programs are large, the Government's support of basic research should be larger than now. It is now inadequate to keep the topnotch people in the universities provided with funds for research and equipment." The Federal Government, Dr. DuBridge argues, is spending about $15 billion...
...Shadows. Jupiter's temperature now seems as mysterious as the sun's. Astronomers Bruce C. Murray and Robert L. Wildey of Caltech uncovered that surprise by placing a new infrared photometer at the focus of Palomar's 200-in. telescope and taking the temperature of Jupiter's cold atmosphere. Although the photometer designed by Engineer James A. Westphal is 20 to 50 times as sensitive as earlier instruments, it registered no change as it scanned the Great Red Spot and the light and dark bands that decorate Jupiter's disk...
...will go on for months or years. But already they know that the epicenter (the place on the earth's surface that is directly above the underground source of trouble) was located somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez in a wild, uninhabited region of glaciers and high, rugged mountains. Caltech's famed Seismologist Charles F. Richter thinks that the focus-the point where the shock originated-was at the comparatively shallow depth of 20 miles below the epicenter...
...tiny spot of light known as 3C-147 looked no different from the countless millions of dim stars that can be picked out by the giant, 200-in. telescope on top of Mount Palomar. But when astronomers from Caltech's radio observatory reported that their 90-ft. dish antennas were picking up powerful radio waves from 3C-147's faint gleam, Palomar's men decided to make a closer examination...