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Fred L. Whipple, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, will retire as Director of the local Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory in July. The Smithsonian Institute announced the retirement yesterday named George B. Field, professor of Astronomy, to succeed...
Whipple has been named a Smithsonian senior scientist. He has been director of the joint Smithsonian-Harvard facilities here since 1955.. He will spend full time in research...
...Climaxing the golden-anniversary observance will be a tribute to the man whose heritage we share. The Smithsonian Institution has elected to establish the Henry R. Luce Hall of News Reporting in the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington. To be opened in April 1973, the Hall will contain the first permanent record of the impact of media on the development of our country. Its displays will range from pre-Revolutionary pamphlets, newspapers and magazines to the most sophisticated of today's news-disseminating techniques. It will be a permanent treasure of information for journalists, scholars, students...
Using batteries of instruments that include solar telescopes equipped with cameras, spectroscopes and magnetographs, they maintain constant vigilance of the sun, looking for the smallest sign of unusual solar activity. But the accurate forecasting of flare-ups is still what Solar Physicist Robert Noyes of the Harvard and Smithsonian observatories calls "very much a black art," a description that is fully supported by last week's dramatic-and unexpected-events...
...balloon is the only vehicle large enough to transport the 40-inch in diameter telescope. Robert W. Noyes, physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said. In addition, a balloon can stay up longer--10-12 hours of observation is planned--it carries more instruments, and is cheaper...