Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered cosmic bubbles in space which may alter scientists' views of how the universe was formed...
Former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution S. Dillon Ripley, who knows so much about the museum that he's giving the opening remarks this Friday, says he's "very impressed with. [Sackler Museum architect James] Stirling's ability to make space out of small, awkward spaces...
...There's a terrible tendency among museum builders to put things in little boxes, like honeycomb," said Ripley, who had been secretary of the Smithsonian for 20 years before becoming secretary, emeritus, last year. "Stirling's avoided that...
Strange Matter: Dr. George Field, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden St., Cambridge...
...Arthur M. Sackler Museum here at Harvard is the fourth institution to bear his name, the other three being the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Arthur M. Sackler Health Communications Center at the Tufts University Medical Center in downtown Boston...