Word: groningen
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Superb Work. Such grand, galactic thoughts come easily these days to the man who has been puzzling over the stars ever since he was twelve and his amateur astronomer uncle gave him a look through a telescope. Before he finished high school in the Dutch town of Groningen, where he was born, he had become so expert a student of the skies that his teacher exchanged chairs with him during astronomy lessons and allowed him to address the class. "You know that stuff better than I do," the teacher admitted...
...time young Maarten had enrolled at the University of Groningen, where he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy, his dedication to astronomy had begun to alarm his father, a government accountant. "How can you earn your daily bread by looking at the stars?", the elder Schmidt asked repeatedly. He was placated only by a direct appeal from University Astronomy Professor Adriaan Blaauw, who saw in the eager young student the makings of an able professional. Upon graduation in 1949, Schmidt was offered a job at the University of Leiden Observatory as an assistant to Astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who is famous...
HANS WYNBERG Groningen, The Netherlands...
Continental's find is the third such discovery in as many months in the British sector of the North Sea. Since 1959, when Esso and Shell discovered the mammoth Groningen gas field on the Dutch coastal plain, fuel-needy Europeans-and an international array of ambitious oilmen-have suspected that the world's biggest bubble of natural gas may lie beneath the North Sea. Except for one inconclusive well drilled off The Netherlands last year, that dream was long based on geological speculation and nurtured largely by faith...
...Thyssen steel interests two weeks ago formed a new company, Thyssengas A.G., to import Dutch gas by pipeline and expand its market in the industry-rich Ruhr by vigorous price cuts. In The Netherlands, the Gasunie marketing combine expects a complete changeover by household gas users to natural Groningen gas by the end of 1966. Because natural gas yields twice as much heat as manufactured gas-and thus requires less gas for the same task-most appliances must be scrapped or substantially modified in the process. One result: mountains of discarded stoves and ovens are piled up outside many...