Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British, Astronomer Frank Drake confirmed the rapid, regular signal and discovered that it was ten times as powerful at 111 MH (for megahertz: 1,000,000 cycles per second) than at any other frequency. "This has been the biggest bombshell that I can remember in radio astronomy," he says. Caltech Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, who discovered the strange nature of quasars, calls the finding "fantastic, incredible...
Oftentimes Overdone. U.S. scientists have already devised a host of theories about pulsars. Yeshiva University Astrophysicist A.G.W. Cameron and Caltech Astronomer John B. Oke believe the mysterious objects may be white dwarfs, Cameron suggesting that their frequency of oscillation is actually a harmonic of the lower frequency assigned to dwarfs by current theory. U.S. Naval Research Physicist Herbert Friedman of the U.S. Naval Research Lab oratory and Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold support the neutron-star hypothesis. Gold speculates that the first pulsar identified may be an extremely dense body as small as six to 60 miles in diameter that rotates...
...satellite, the 31-lb. Explorer 1. Budget cuts, warned Von Braun at a National Press Club luncheon, were "dismantling the high competence" of the U.S. space effort and supplying funds "too low to maintain progress and momentum." All the same, noted Dr. William H. Pickering, 57, head of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it has been a zingy decade-notably in the space race with Russia. Pickering's box score: 500 satellites, 13 successful moon missions, 2,000 hours of manned flight and twelve hours of human excursion outside a spacecraft for the U.S., v. 250 satellites, eight...
Those Organs! Harvard's Nathan Pusey, Yale's Kingman Brewster, and Caltech's Lee DuBridge watch next to nothing. Milton Eisenhower, nominated to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this month, sees news, sports and, at times, movies and specials. Physicist William Pickering, whose Jet Propulsion Laboratory has directed U.S. unmanned space probes from Explorer 1 to Surveyor 6, likes a preposterous piece of space fiction, Star Trek. J. Edgar Hoover is strictly business: No. 1 on his most wanted list is The F.B.I...
...when Geneticist George Beadle was teaching at Caltech, University of Chicago Law Dean Edward H. Levi persuaded him to give up a life of scholarship and research to take the Chicago presidency. A few years later, when the University of California sought out Levi as chancellor at Berkeley, Beadle told Levi, then Chicago's provost: "If you want to run a university, why don't you take my place and run this one?" Levi stayed on at Chicago-and last week he was named by its trustees to succeed Beadle, who will retire next year. Levi will become...