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...research herself, working as a dorm crew captain, or dancing in the Gumboots dance troupe, Mohamed was eager to share her love of astronomy. An active member of Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe (STAHR), Mohamed taught classes for Harvard students and affiliates on how to use the 10-inch refractor telescope housed in the Loomis-Michael Observatory on top of the Science Center...
Harvard's astrophysical juggernaut began as allscientific institutions begin...with a grant. In1843 the sighting of a huge comet fueled publicinterest in astronomy, resulting in a $25,730Harvard grant which was used to build a 15-inchdiameter "Great Refractor" on Observatory Hill onGarden Street...
SEVERAL DECADES BACK IN TIME, at the other end of the binary-star research chain, Sergei Gaposchkin preserves the older world of Astronomy in his 6' by 8' cubicle under the Great Refractor a 15-inch telescope installed...
...SEARS TOWER, the Great Refractor, around which the HCO developed, is the focus of Open Nights, when interested outsiders are shown around the precincts. The Observatory ignores...
John Wolbach is one of the few persons who has a key to its dome. He has been in charge of the Great Refractor during the last 15 years, during which the Tower, the dome and the telescope itself have decayed rapidly. Wolbach, distressed, would like to restore the Tower from the bottom up. "This room, the rotunda at the base here, has potential," he says, walking around the granite pier that supports the Refractor. Brilliant murals signed "Sergei Gaposhkin, 1957" line the walls. Wolbach frowns at them. "A Russian individual by the name of Sergei Gaposhkin--Dr. Gaposhkin...