Word: emeritus
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...want to see the Comet's nucleus. I've been talking about it for 35 years, and I don't know what it looks like," said Fred L. Whipple, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, of the comet which returns to earthly view every 76 years...
Whipple, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory where many Harvard professors do research, was one of six experts who delivered short addresses on topics like "comet folklore and mythology" and "comet history...
Gilbert, who received his doctorate from Harvard in 1930, was described yesterday by longtime friend and teacher Lamont University Professor Emeritus Edward S. Mason, as "a first rate economist who was very intense and forceful in applying his philosophies...
Cassidy is a Jamaican native who learned both English and Creole, developing a rich feeling for words and a sensitivity to the nuances of language well before he moved with his family to the U.S. in 1919. Now a professor emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin, he began putting together a team of more than 100 fieldworkers and editors for his dictionary as long ago as 1963. Building on a trove of 40,000 folk words donated by the American Dialectic Society, he dispatched his researchers to tape more than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals...
Former master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus John H. Finley '25, wrote to Kirkland House Master Donald H. Pfister this week suggesting that the historic wood be used to make a bench for Kirkland House...