Word: smithsonian
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Under the terms of a deal between the clan and scientists, the land will be used for research on climate change in a joint venture that includes Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Center for Tropical Forest Science...
Mango, who received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and Ph.D. from Princeton, initially wanted to combine science and art and worked at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art after college...
Still, I can be persuaded. One day at the Smithsonian, I saw a young couple standing in front of an exhibit. With glasses tripping off his nose and tube socks nipping at his knees, the guy was a geek, explaining the intricacies of an esoteric display. The girl on his arm, however, was a beaut, listening attentively to everything he said. For this geek, it was enough to make me want a yearly pass. –Brian J. Bolduc ‘10, a Crimson editorial editor, is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House...
When Burke K. Zimmerman ’58 was studying iron meteorites to determine the date of origin of the solar system as a research assistant at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), he said he never thought others would be using stopwatches to compute the orbit of Sputnik, the Soviet satellite sent into orbit the fall of his senior year...
...Harvard’s and the Smithsonian’s observatories, which had been housed in the same building in Cambridge since 1955, together received more funding than any other comparable site, as a result of their combined size. (The two institutions merged in 1973 to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Shapiro went on to direct the Center from...