Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Whipple retired and gained emeritus status in 1973, the HCO and SAO formally joined to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field took the helm at the center's 60 Garden St. offices, where the SAO and HCO are jointly housed...
Today, Huchra is satisfied with the relationship since "there's a symbiosis" between Harvard and the Smithsonian, he says...
...Smithsonian owns virtually all CFA observational and computational facilities, including the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass., the George R. Agassiz Station in Fort Davis, Tex., the 176-inch equivalent Multiple Mirror (MMT) telescope at the Whipple Oberservatory in Amado, Ariz., and the VAX II Cluster mainframe computers at the CFA, which can perform two million calculations per second...
...return, Harvard offers an "academic atmosphere [that] is very good," Huchra says, adding, "One of the draws for me to the Smithsonian is the ability to teach...
More serious are salary disputes between the two faculties. While the Smithsonian employs 119 members of the center's 140 tenured faculty, paid salaries of its staff have lagged behind Harvard's over the past 15 years...