Word: smithsonian
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...Smithsonian and Harvard were first brought together under the most personal--and Harvardian--of circumstances. In the 1950s, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) invited then-Harvard College Observatory (HCO) Director Fred L. Whipple to assume its directorship...
...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) was formed to cap an 18-year experiment in which the University's academic prestige was combined with the Institute's resources. The result marks the union of two of the country's oldest astronomical observatories...
...forerunner of the CFA emerged in 1955 out of an unusual collaboration between Harvard University and the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian Institute. While similar joint arrangements later developed into leading research sites such as Los Alamos at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories, the CFA was the first to take advantage of pooled resources and helped stake the U.S. to an early lead in international astrophysics...
Internationally known for his pioneering work on meteors and comets, Whipple took the post--on condition that the SAO relocate to Cambridge. So vital was Whipple considered to the Smithsonian that the SAO complied and joined HCO in Cambridge that year, while it maintained a separate administration...
Clifford Stoll, a 38 year-old computer expert at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, broke the East European spy ring by setting up a complex monitoring system on his computer...