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...always, the descriptions were more than a little fanciful. This time, though, there really were some objects overhead-man-made objects that did not contain any visitors from a far planet. They had been sent aloft by three ingenious students at Pasadena's California Institute of Technology...
Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories Pasadena, Calif...
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Schmidt was warmly accepted in Pasadena. "He was an ideal product of the Dutch school," says Jesse Greenstein. "In this country we tend to stress atomic and nuclear physics in astronomy. Schmidt came to us with more classical training. He had, and still has good sharp eyes at the telescope, an old-fashioned virtue in science...
...lure of Southern California was too great. "Those big telescopes are a little like drugs," he explains. "Once you've worked with them, it's hard not to return." In 1959 he accepted the offer of an assistant professorship at Caltech and came back to Pasadena. The following year, after immersing himself in the specialties of his American colleagues-spectroscopy, cosmic radiation and extragalactic phenomena-he took over the job of retiring Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, who had been working on spectrograms of radio galaxies. Almost immediately, he found himself "struggling quietly" with the riddle of the curious objects...