Word: snyders
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First postulated in 1939 by Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder, one of his graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley, black holes are the theoretical residue of extremely massive stars whose thermonuclear fuel has been exhausted. As the fires go out, the gases-which have been supported in the shape of a huge, distended globe by heat and radiation -suddenly begin to fall inward toward the star's center of gravity. If the star is massive enough, the imploding gases gather such momentum as they fall that they virtually crush themselves out of existence...
...second section the scene shifts to San Francisco and to a larger group of writers, including the young San Francisco poet Gary Snyder. It was Snyder whom Kerouac used as the model for his main character, "Japhy Ryder," in The Dharma Bums, a novel that takes place in the early days of the West Coast Beats. "Japhy Ryder" is a poet and Orientalist who lives in a hut in a Berkeley backyard and who spends much of his time sitting on the grass mats on the floor of his hut studying Oriental texts, and sipping tea. There are three pictures...
Revelle last night called Snyder "the first leader in the public health profession to take with great seriousness the problems of unprecedented human population growth... and to try to do something about...
...Jack Snyder has shown both great imagination and profound dedication to human welfare," Revelle said...
Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, said that "Dr. Snyder will certainly be remembered as a builder...