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Danish astrophysicist Bengt Stromgren of the University of Copenhagen received a doctorate of Science...
...host of hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...
...group of members. Some seminars, especially in the School of Mathematics, meet each week to discuss what is, in the words of Oppenheimer, "new and difficult in the field." Other seminars discuss "older material, material which may range back one or two years." At the present time, astrophysicist Bengt Stromgren, newly arrived at the Institute, is giving a series of lecture-seminars on his special field of interest...
...cablegram from Stromgren, South Africa, received yesterday at the University Observatory, reported that Mr. M. W. Reid of the Royal Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope had discovered on December 1 a comet, five degrees north of the bright star. Fomalhaut in the constellation Aquarius. The cablegram did not state the magnitude of the comet but if it attains any great brilliance it will be observable in Cambridge on clear nights, for the constellation Aquarius is on the meridian, due south, at 6 o'clock in the evening. Professor Harlow Shapley states that further details, including the magnitude...
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