Word: cosmologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kirshner then laughs and says, "Well, I agree... I think astrology and music is a bad combination." He continues, "I think cosmology and cosmetology get confused even more. Here's a quick tip: If you want to have unwanted hair removed, go to a cosme-tol-ogist, not a cosmologist. If you wanted unwanted dark matter removed, that's a different story...
...exotic particles, black-body radiation and the like -- Overbye draws intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius and women with his charm. By describing the quirky personalities and brilliant minds of these and other scientists, Overbye reveals cosmology to be a human and passionate enterprise. This lures the reader into wanting to know something of the science as well, which...