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...Smithsonian and Harvard were first brought together under the most personal--and Harvardian--of circumstances. In the 1950s, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) invited then-Harvard College Observatory (HCO) Director Fred L. Whipple to assume its directorship...
Internationally known for his pioneering work on meteors and comets, Whipple took the post--on condition that the SAO relocate to Cambridge. So vital was Whipple considered to the Smithsonian that the SAO complied and joined HCO in Cambridge that year, while it maintained a separate administration...
After Whipple retired and gained emeritus status in 1973, the HCO and SAO formally joined to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field took the helm at the center's 60 Garden St. offices, where the SAO and HCO are jointly housed...
Today, Huchra is satisfied with the relationship since "there's a symbiosis" between Harvard and the Smithsonian, he says...
...Smithsonian owns virtually all CFA observational and computational facilities, including the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass., the George R. Agassiz Station in Fort Davis, Tex., the 176-inch equivalent Multiple Mirror (MMT) telescope at the Whipple Oberservatory in Amado, Ariz., and the VAX II Cluster mainframe computers at the CFA, which can perform two million calculations per second...