Word: leiden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio waves pass through cosmic dust clouds. By tracking the 21-cm. waves given off by hydrogen, radio astronomers have been able to probe deeper and deeper through the Milky Way toward the galaxy's center. Recently, Dutch Astronomers G. W. Rougoor and J. H. Oort of Leiden Observatory reported that they had been able to peer into the mysterious nucleus itself. They found there a strange pinwheel of rapidly spinning hydrogen...
...With some expert guidance from Jonathan Routh, a British practical joker, a bunch of Cambridge students popped up in The Netherlands to help in their own fashion the State University of Leiden celebrate a hands-across-the-Channel Cambridge Week. They 1) opened an exhibition of rare Rembrandts and Hobbemas that turned out to be all fakes, 2) unveiled a statue that was really two live, scantily clad models painted white, 3) planted a memorial tree in the Pieterskerkplein that managed to grow a yard overnight, 4 ) showed a film on Cambridge life filled with native mud huts and elephants...
...Hendrik Oort, director of the Observatory of Leiden Sc.D...
...Doctor of Science went to Edwin H. Land '30, inventor of the Land camera, Jan H. Oort, Director of the Observatory of Leiden, and Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, known for synthesizing quinine and other substances...
...husband, made less and less effort to conceal his true feelings, and Princess Beatrix, heiress to the throne, who is known to sympathize with her father, moved out of her mother's palace to take a room with an official's family near her university at Leiden...