Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born 52 years ago in Haverhill, Mass., brisk, self-assured Harlan True Stetson was once a physics instructor at Dartmouth, an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan. He has traveled on five solar eclipse expeditions, belongs to a dozen reputable scientific bodies, including astronomical, physical, optical, geophysical and radio engineering societies. His colleagues have voted him an asterisk in American Men of Science for distinguished research. At present a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has actively developed the new science of cosmic-terrestrial relations, ably popularized his specialty...
...astronomy work, including study of the solar system, the stars, and galactic systems through classes and telescopic observations, will be conducted by George Z. Dimitroff, of Harvard Observatory, Monday and Friday evenings, from 7:30 to 9 o'clock, at the Astronomical Lamoratory on Jarvis Street...
...August 12, the first definitive proof that the solar corona is not made up chiefly of flaming coronal streamers alone, as has been supposed, but is an even, globular blanket covering the sun more than a million miles deep, was revealed by a conference of astronomers at Harvard Observatory...
...Colorado's planes had scanned more than 100,000 square miles. The Itasca, which inaugurated the search last fortnight, continued its futile patrol until fuel ran short. The minesweeper Swan put ashore a searching party at Canton Island, where last month a party of scientists viewed the | solar eclipse (TIME, June 21). Meanwhile the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 62 planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet...
...decomposition of radioactive material. "A very young iron meteorite," said Dr. Urry, "is 100,000,000 years old. The oldest is 2,900,000,000 years old." The last figure is just within the upper limit commonly given by geologists for the age of the earth and the solar system. Dr. Urry believes that iron meteorites are the debris of planets which have broken up within the last 100,000,000 years...