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...Most famed white dwarf, of which only three have definitely been spotted, is the companion of Sirius whose density is approximately half a ton to the cubic inch. *World telescope ranking: Observatory Diameter of Reflector Mt. Wilson........ 100 in. Dunlap (Toronto).....................................74 in. Dominion ...........................................72 in. Perkins (Delaware, Ohio).......................... 69 in. Harvard .....................................................61 in. Argentine National (Cordoba).........................60 in. Harvard (South Africa) ....................................60 in. Berlin-Babelsburg ........................................48½in. Melbourne..................................................... 48 in. †One light-year=approximately six trillion miles. Traveling 186,000 miles per second, light takes only eight minutes to reach Earth from...
...spoke to him was a rich, retired lawyer named David Alexander Dunlap who had made his money not at the bar but by grubstaking prospectors, acquiring shares in the pioneer mines of the Cobalt field. Dr. Chant's talk impressed David Dunlap profoundly. He spoke to his wife about his idea of giving the university an observatory with a powerful telescope. Not long afterward he died...
...widow, however, did not forget his idea. For years she pondered it, conferring at times with Dr. Chant. Finally announcement was made of a gift of $500,000. Together Widow Dunlap and Astronomer Chant looked over the ground near Toronto, found a suitable site on a ridge nine miles from the city. Her son laid a cornerstone. A graceful administration building went up, with three housings for small telescopes on the roof. Fifty yards away a great telescope was installed in a circular building topped by a gleaming copper-clad dome...
Last week came Clarence Augustus Chant's 70th birthday. That same day David Dunlap Observatory was officially opened and Dr. Chant officially became its director-master of the world's second largest telescope in service...
Confronted with this dilemma, most adults would choose annihilation-according to Dr. Knight Dunlap, distinguished Johns Hopkins psychologist. Somewhat dubious of this conclusion was one of Dr. Dunlap's distinguished colleagues, Dr. Frederic Lyman Wells of Harvard Medical School, head psychologist of Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Dr. Wells and his associates presented the Dunlap Dilemma on cards to 176 persons. In Science last week Dr. Wells reported that only one in six of his subjects voted for annihilation...