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...Thanks to this gift, we were able to become credible participants in the project,” Timken University Professor Irwin I. Shapiro told the Harvard Gazette in 1997. He was then director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Harvard College Observatory...
...interest in all things paint by number resurfaced a few years ago, and the fad seems to be gaining steam. Vintage finished pictures are now being avidly collected, and new sets are being made. The Smithsonian Institution was host to an exhibit called "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s," which led to a book, Paint by Number, by William L. Bird Jr. Designer Todd Oldham, who has been collecting the canvases for 20 years, recently taught the Today-show audience how to make Valentine's Day presents with paint-by-number kits. Sean Cisewski, inventory-control manager...
...regarded as a world resource,” Hanken says. “It is on par with the finest natural history collections anywhere in the world: the British Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History. We are right up there with them. Far and away, it is the most important and largest university research collection anywhere...
...president, you’re really the hit person for astronomy,” said Andrea K. Dupree, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) who served as president of the AAS from 1996 to 1998. “You have a chance to speak for the profession and to have influence on where the profession goes...
Robert Noyes, an Astronomer at the Smithsonian Center, said the OGLE researchers did excellent detective work...