Word: hynek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Hynek, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, last night refused to verify a report that the rocket of Sputnik I would crash to earth sometime today...
...order to stimulate interest in science among the nation's youth, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute, has suggested scientific fairy tales to accompany "Mother Goose" stories. Bed-time lessons "on the origin of the numeral zero" should be inculcated in children in order to give them "a basic interest in science from an early age," preferably before they enter kindergarten...
Whipple, who besides being director of the Observatory is a professor of Astronomy at Harvard, is being assisted by J. Allen Hynek, visiting lecturer on Natural Sciences. Hynek is an associate director of the Observatory in charge of the satellite tracking progrm. The two of them, according to one of their staff-workers, "have practically lived at this office" since Sputnik made its appearance...
Whipple, moreover, was in Washington for an IGY conference when the Russian satellite was launched. Hynek was at home when he first heard a news report of the event, but he quickly assembled a skeleton crew of Smithsonian staff-members and began to alert the hundred or more Moonwatch stations from the Garden St. office...
Whipple and Hynek express complete satisfaction with their observation system to date. Moonwatch teams were at an initial disadvantage in that they were located in positions from which the projected American satellite would be visible early in its life, but which were out of the range of visibility for the Russian satellite for about a week after its launching...