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...sparsely decorated office tucked deep inside the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Spahr sifts through global reports of significant debris in the heavens and attempts to pinpoint long-term threats to Earth’s viability...
When Timothy Spahr finally knocked off work on Jan. 13, after more than 10 hours on the job, he figured he was at last done for the night. Spahr's task as an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass., is to collect reports of asteroids that might one day pass near Earth. On that Tuesday, he had been processing observations from an automated telescope in New Mexico when he noticed a pinpoint of light that might fit the profile. He calculated the object's orbit and, as usual, posted the information on the Minor Planet...
From 1969 to 1973, Boorstin served as the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of History and Technology. He became librarian of Congress...
These five professors have chairs that sprung from a former partnership between Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. This partnership has foundered in recent years, and there is no immediate way to replace the professors who occupy these chairs once they retire. Once these five professors retire, the chairs will disappear, leaving the department stunted and without a mechanism to replace the professorships...
...years later, David F. Phillips, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Ronald L. Walsworth, another associate; and Lukin published a study describing how the team of researchers captured a “quantum fingerprint,” or holographic imprint, of a pulse of light in a super-cooled gaseous medium...