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Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, said he "helped to get the camera designed and aboard so that close-up, color pictures of the undisturbed lunar surface could be taken." Neil A. Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, used the same camera during his moonwalk...
...joint committee, designated CAMROC, the Cambridge Radio Observatory Committee, is sponsored by Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and M.I.T. and the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. Co-chairmen Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, and Jerome B. Wiesner, dean of the School of Science at M.I.T., head the group of ten scientists and engineers...
Scientists in this country have often speculated that extraterrestrial beings might try to communicate with other worlds by simple patterns of powerful radio waves. Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, won the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery that atomic hydrogen in space radiates signals, allowing scientists to pinpoint the location of the transmitting body. Lilley speculated that Russian astronomers applied Purcell's discovery to their own observations and reasoned that intelligent beings in space with knowledge of radio transmission techniques were trying to tell others of their existence...
...that faculties consist of "schorlarly recluses hiding out in their labs or in the library" and "a tribe of semi-literate extroverts who charm and inspire the students," Ford cited the "great teacher-scholars" of Harvard, like William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History; Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and Harry A. Wolfson '12, Nathan Litauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Emeritus...
...other Senior Fellows are Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Leo Professor of Economics, Harry Levis '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, and Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce Professor of Philosophy...