Word: leiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrinking Output. Internationally, the wide-ranging reassessment of Rembrandt's prodigious output has resulted in a marked contraction of the number of oil paintings unquestionably attributed to the Leiden miller's gifted son. In 1923, the German art historian W. R. Valentiner listed some 700 genuine Rembrandts. In 1942, the Dutch scholar Abraham Bredius pared the total to about 620, and last year the German Kurt Bauch brought the number to 550. The end is not in sight. To be published in the U.S. in October is an other, still more definitive catalogue by The Netherlands' Horst...
...following year, after earning his doctorate from Leiden, Schmidt won one of the greatest prizes available to a talented young astronomer: a Carnegie Institution fellowship. With it he gained entrée into the stimulating atmosphere of Pasadena's California Institute of Technology, and access to the fabulous astronomical complex in Southern California. There, all within easy driving distance of Los Angeles, the world's greatest telescopes point skyward. Atop Mount Palomar is the 200-in. Hale telescope and a 48-in. Schmidt (no relation) wide-angle scope. On Mount Wilson is a 100-in. telescope...
...looking at the stars?", the elder Schmidt asked repeatedly. He was placated only by a direct appeal from University Astronomy Professor Adriaan Blaauw, who saw in the eager young student the makings of an able professional. Upon graduation in 1949, Schmidt was offered a job at the University of Leiden Observatory as an assistant to Astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who is famous for determining the rotation of the Milky Way galaxy as well as for his pioneer role in the radio mapping of hydrogen clouds. "His work was superb," says Oort. Perhaps as important to Schmidt as the professor...
...modest, good-humored stargazer, who was born in The Netherlands and educated at Leiden University, did his most productive research after he came to the California observatories and became a professor at Caltech. He likes to deprecate his own achievements, but his colleagues agree that no man has contributed more to the study of the puzzling quasars that dot the universe...
...Education Minister Joseph Cals, and a meeting of Student Corps leaders voted, 127 to 87, to modify such monstrosities as the pig killing. But they left the system generally intact, which delighted many an old Dutch college grad. In the good old days, recalled Justice Minister Albert Beerman, a Leiden man, some students there were involved in a hazing scandal. "But finally," said he, "they all came to high and respectable posts in Dutch society...