Word: menzel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each department, men are interested in the temperatures of things they can't touch, Professor Donald H. Menzel wants to explain the temperature of the corona, a collar of thin gas around the sun. Professor Louis C. Graton wants to find the temperature of geyser holes...
Other election results are vice-president, Alice Sizer '50; secretary, Vera Lorch '51; and treasurer, Elizabeth Menzel...
...succeeds Professor Donald H. Menzel, who wanted to spend more time studying the sun and its effects on the earth. Monzel will travel West this week to continue his work, but will keep his posts as professor of Astrophysics and associate director of the Harvard Observatory...
Professor Menzel will move to the high-altitude observatory in Climax, Colorado, which he founded in 1940. Here he will continue his work on the corona and on the sun's effects on the earth...
...Menzel, who plans to expand the whole Climax set-up, has written several the-ories on the cause of the aurora and magnetic storms. This summer he proved that a ring nebula--a ring of bright gas surrounding a star--was actually composed of huge comets...