Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary fire in his mock defense, in fact a satirical indictment, of the oil seekers, and Earl Montgomery as the president scowls and plots so vilely that we are ready to cheer with the inhabitants of Chailot when he and his fellow conspirators are destroyed. Lynn Milgrim and Paul Schmidt make attractively childlike lovers, whose only reason for being in the play is to love each other. Everyone, down to the flowers-girl and the doorman, performs with grace...
...Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of "quasi-stellar sources" have only generated new arguments; new observations have only enlarged the uncertainty. About all that the assembled scientists could agree on with confidence was that Dr. Maarten Schmidt of Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories was the proper choice for astronomy's prestigious Helen B. Warner prize...
...while, astronomers tried to explain how such ordinary-looking stars could produce large quantities of radio waves. But they made no progress, and two years ago Dr. Schmidt made things worse. With Dr. Jesse Greenstein, Schmidt photographed the spectra of four of the radio-loud "stars" with the 200-in. Palomar telescope and found evidence of ultraviolet light that had increased in wave length until it became visible light...
Fastest and Farthest. Such wave lengthening, which astronomers call a "red shift," is the familiar tool used to measure the speed of objects moving away from the earth. The fastest of the mysterious objects measured by Dr. Schmidt proved to be speeding away at 76,000 miles per second, which is about half of the speed of light...
According to the rules of the expanding universe, speed of recession is proportionate to distance. This reckoning places Dr. Schmidt's quasars at least four billion light-years away from the earth; it makes them the most distant objects yet identified. Obviously they cannot be anything like stars. To be visible at such an enormous distance, a luminous object must give as much light as 50 entire galaxies, each containing an average of 100 billion stars...