Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...optical parts of the telescope have just been completed. They consist of a 33-inch spherical mirror, and correcting plate of 24 inches diameter. This important type of telescope was invented about ten years ago by Bernard Schmidt, of Hamburg, Germany, and to date the Jewett telescope is the largest to be put into operation. Construction of larger telescopes of this type was recently started for the Boyden Station of Harvard Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, and at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology...
...mounting for the telescope is of the two-pier type, but the special nature of the Schmidt-type reflector has made it necessary to include several unusual features. Construction is being super-intended by Mr. Herbert E. Hanson of the observatory staff. Except for the polar axis and counterweights, the mounting is of Dowmetal,--probably the first telescope mounting ever made of this specially light and strong magnesium alloy. The Dow Chemical Company, of Midland, Mich., cooperated in providing the difficult castings necessary for both the telescope tube and mounting...
...houses for use by officers of different ranks-apparently all before the Army crossed the Dutch frontier. One German thing which they enjoyed was massed band concerts-given on the Opera steps, in the Tuileries Gardens, in the Place de la Concorde-under the direction of Herr Professor Doktor Schmidt...
...Writer Karl H. von Wiegand waited one day last week for Hitler. Around him, like suspicious police dogs, gathered the familiar assistants of a Hitler interview: Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Ribbentrop's Lawyer Hewel, Chief of the Propaganda Ministry's Press Bureau Dr. Dietrich, Foreign Office Interpreter Schmidt...
...winners are James S. Clarke, of La Grange, Ill., A.B. Harvard '40 (Daniel Fiske Jones National Scholarship); Martin E. Flipse, of Douglaston, L.I., N.Y., A.B. Hope College '40, (Edward S. Harkness National Scholarship); and Winser C. Schmidt, of Rye, N.Y., of the Schefield Scientific School, Yale (Harvard Medical School National Scholarship...