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Though individuals involved in the search process refused to comment on individual candidates or the status of the search, The Boston Globe reported last week that the front-runner was Tom W. Lentz, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s International Art Museums division...
Gerald Stanley Hawkins, a British-born astronomer who taught at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories and first theorized that Stonehenge was created by Neolithic people to track solar and lunar movements, died May 26 at his farm in Virginia...
...wrote that his work was made possible by the IBM 7090 electronic computer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories, which helped to determine “significant horizon positions for rising and setting of Sun, Moon, stars and planets...
Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich said he remembered Hawkins from his work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories, where Hawkins was the scientist in charge of the Harvard Radio Meteor Project. Hawkins was “looking for radar echoes off the meteors,” to ascertain their height and velocity and thus be able to find meteor showers in the daytime...
...younger days when I watched her TV shows as avidly as I watched Sesame Street. This was just one of thousands of New York Times Cookbooks across the country, but it was the one Julia herself had flipped through, splattered on and consulted. Julia, whose kitchen was cataloged by Smithsonian curators on Sept...