Word: caltech
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...DuBRIDGE, former president of Caltech: Carl Sagan has an influence on science far beyond the television tube. He is introducing people to the many aspects of science. Frank Press (scientific adviser to Carter) has persuaded the President of the importance of basic research, developed some of the technical aspects of SALT II, and remains an important link in explaining the treaty to the scientific community. Bruce Murray, director of the Jet Propulsion Lab, reflects and influences the objectives and hopes of the entire scientific community...
...Edward Stone, 43, is the chief scientist for the highly successful Voyager 2 space probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is now working on a 1983 "solar-polar" mission that will orbit two satellites in opposite directions around the sun's poles. The aim: to learn more about how energy flows from the sun and affects the earth's environment. Says Dr. Bruce Murray, director...
Last week another automatic spacecraft named Voyager 2 picked up where its twin left off. Programmed by controllers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to fill in gaps left by the first flyby, Voyager 2 did its closest reconnoitering of the larger Jovian moons on its approach to Jupiter rather than on its way beyond it, as Voyager 1 had done. That gave scientists at J.P.L. a totally different perspective on these little worlds...
...memorable epithet of former Federal Communications Commissioner Newton Minow, but as a vast resource waiting to be tapped. One TV watcher who agrees is Minow himself, who now sits on the PTST board. Says he: "The most important educational institution in the country is not Harvard or Yale or Caltech-it's television." For better or for worse, it is difficult not to agree with...
...Voyager curved around the sun's largest planet at speeds up to 104,600 km (65,000 miles) per hour, the craft performed nearly flawlessly, its probing eyes and instruments shifting between Jupiter and its moons. As one startling picture after another flashed onto the screens at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, even Cornell's irrepressible Carl Sagan was left nearly speechless. Said he: "This is almost beyond interpretation. There's different chemistry, different physics, different forces at work out there...