Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile another 12 professors, including Geller and Huchra, are jointly tenured by Harvard and the Smithsonian but are paid by the Smithsonian...
...There's always a friction" between faculty, Huchra said, deriving from the perceived "second-class" citizenship of the Smithsonian staff. Other tensions appear when the center attempts to set long-range goals. Professor of Astronomy Margaret J. Geller says that Harvard has been "dragging its feet" on a proposed $20 million telescope to be built in the Southern Hemisphere. The University apparently prefers to rely for now on the Smithsonian facilities...
...Huchra says he expects at least the faculty situation "will change soon," as the Smithsonian boosts salaries...
...gotten smaller and the Smithsonian has gotten bigger" since the merging of the two, said Huchra. "If [the Smithsonian] weren't here, there'd only be about eight people...
...great thing that will make enormous progress for astronomy," says Professor Emeritus Fred L. Whipple, former director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA). The ST would gain the additional range because its view would be free of obscuring, human-produced light and atmospheric pollution, Whipple said...