Word: oakes
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...Oak Ridge has also been frequented by Harvard undergraduates, since it offers opportunities for both junior and senior thesis research and the lab course Astronomy 191, “Astrophysics Laboratory...
Lecturer on Astronomy Thomas M. Dame, who has been an instructor for “Astrophysics Laboratory,” said he did not look forward to losing the site. “Over the 18 year history of the course, the experiment conducted at Oak Ridge has consistently been one of the most successful and popular,” he said in an e-mail...
...Without Oak Ridge, Dame said, the smaller 16-inch Knowles telescope at the Science Center—which is not a research telescope—will have to satisfy undergraduates’ needs...
...skies above Harvard Square are of course a far cry from those above Harvard, Mass., and the Knowles telescope has only one-fifteenth the light gathering power of the Wyeth reflector at Oak Ridge,” Dame said...
Sometimes these thrills have helped launch students onto their life paths. Latham said a prominent astronomer mentioned that he had chosen his career after his college roommate, an astrophysics concentrator, dragged him out to Oak Ridge for a night of stargazing...