Word: gwinn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gwinn said the findings "will change people's understanding of the galaxy...
...discovery will "revise theories of everything that involves kinematic distances--measurements of brightness of stars, densities, size and mass of gas, dust, plasma, pulsars, stars, nebula, anything that's in our galaxy," said Carl Gwinn, one of the study's participants from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...Gwinn said that before the group's pioneering work scientists had not formally determined the distance which separated celestial bodies. He called the scientific community's conception of the Milky Way "maps without inch-to-mile scales...
...scientists then used a technique which Gwinn compared to the use of radar to detect speeders in order to determine the distance between celestial objects, the astronomer said...
Similarly, Allegheny International played rescuer to Sunbeam in late 1981, saving it from takeover by IC Industries, Inc. Soon, however, Sunbeam Chief Robert Gwinn and 160 of his colleagues found themselves out of jobs. Complained one executive: "They went at us with a meat ax. If Allegheny is a white knight, God save us from white knights." But Allegheny has complaints too. Chairman Robert Buckley said he discovered in Sunbeam "problems under the surface that were greater than they seemed...