Word: layzer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David R. Layzer '47, professor of Astronomy, said that Herrnstein's work "stressed Burt's study, as the best of the available studies." There is "no doubt that the data were faked" by Burt, Layzer said...
...Layzer has written several papers on the I.Q. controversy...
...TOOK THOUSANDS of man-hours," David Layzer says of the classification. "Or rather woman-hours. Those women who produced the Draper system (the plate-stacks classification system) came here maybe at 20 and stayed--some of them 30, 40 years. They weren't paid much of anything. Some had an independent income, but for those who didn't ..." Layzer frowns and shakes his head. A professor of Astronomy, Layzer has been around the Observatory a long time, teaching Nat Sci 90, a large undergraduate course, and doing theoretical work. "That was the old way of doing things here," he goes...
...Layzer's view is wide, inclusive; he pulls the pieces of the Observatory together as he talks. "I teach a Gen Ed course," he smiles. "Astronomy is a science where you can see the past feeding into the present in one generation," he continues. "Sergei Gaposchkin--he's quite a character--was studying binary stars 40 years ago. Now they think binary stars might be connected to x-ray sources. And that's part of a whole computer project...
...problem with astronomy today as I see it, is that the science has divorced itself away from philosophy and religion." Wolbach, an amateur observer, doesn't fit into the hierarchy very well; he is not a professional astronomer, nor a student, nor an employed research worker. "Many people," David Layzer says, "don't understand Mr. Wolbach...