Word: kuiper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom the mantle of Dr. Machen has to some extent fallen." This was cautious praise. Dr. Rienk Bouke.Kuiper, 52, was a good friend of Dr. Machen. taught at Westminster Seminary which his friend founded, succeeded him as chairman of its faculty. Along with other Machenites, Moderator Kuiper last week viewed the election of Stated Clerk Pugh as proof that they had done well to leave the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Of church unity, toward which the larger Presbyterian Church seemed favorably disposed, he said stiffly: "This is no time for it. There ought to be more splits...
Professor Gerard Pieter Kuiper found that Wolf 424 has an unusual "very late M-type" spectrum which indicates that the star is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun. Its apparent magnitude is 11.8, which is about six magnitudes be low the limit of naked-eye visibility. Comparison of the apparent with the intrinsic brightness yielded the distance...
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. refused the request of twelve-year-old Calvin Kuiper of Sheboygan, Wis. for "a few gold bars" to melt up for toy soldiers...
Trained scientists, too, have been carefully observing the Nova's fluctuations. In July, Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper, Lecturer in Astronomy, observed at Lick Observatory, California, that the Nova appeared to be taking the form of a double star. The gases around the nucleus take an eliptical form which we see from the side as a straight line, or nearly so. As nebulous matter appears thicker at the ends, these points appear brighter. The nebulous cloud is so bright as to dominate all light from the nucleus itself...
...earth besides affecting lovers and inspiring poets. The story of my origin; my mountains and craters; my influence on the sea and hundreds of other things are just as interesting as my love lore. Why not journey to the Astronomical Laboratory and hear my good friend and pupil Dr. Kuiper tell you a bit about me in the morning...