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Harvard researcher Dr. John A. Wood, director of the Mineralogy and Petrology Study Group at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, was one of 24 American Scientists to recieve lunar surface material retrieved by the Russian Luna 16 mission...
Citing the apartheid policies which prevail at the Boyden Station, 71 students, faculty and employees at the two observatories in Cambridge wrote a letter to Smithsonian officials asking that they withhold support from the South African observatory...
According to Hoffman, the Boyden Station receives $3000 annually from the Smithsonian for operating expenses. This year, the South African observatory is asking for $12,000 in contributions...
...Boyden Observing Station was originally built by Harvard, but the University left the project in 1955. It is now run by a consortium of observatories from Northern Ireland, Ireland, Sweden, Germany and Belgium, as well as the Smithsonian...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, disagreed with the group's desire to isolate South Africa from the rest of the scientific world. "I agreed completely with their motivations but the methodology of creating an intellectual blockade in education, arts, or the sciences I consider an unsound method of bringing about that scat of change," Whipple said...