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...name pays homage to the black mathematician and surveyor who helped design Washington, D.C. in 1790. The founding group of parents and educators grew out of the DuBois Institute, a Saturday program that tried to give black children a chance for academic and personal enrichment...
William Bradford Shockley was born in London, where his father, a mining engineer, and mother, a mineral surveyor, were on a business assignment. Home-schooled in Palo Alto, Calif., before attending Palo Alto Military Academy and Hollywood High School, he found his interest in physics sparked by a neighbor who taught the subject at Stanford University. Shockley earned a bachelor's degree from Caltech, and a Ph.D. at M.I.T. for a dissertation titled "Calculations of Wave Functions for Electrons in Sodium Chloride Crystals...
...life teemed upon the Red Planet once upon a millennium, it wouldn't have lacked for H20. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which pulls the strings on the Mars Global Surveyor satellite, now reports that Earth's neighbor shows the first clear evidence of oceans and widespread thermal activity in its early history -- both crucial elements in any sort of Martian genesis...
...signs of a hydrothermal system found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...
...goes well, Surveyor will operate into the year 2000. Even before then, NASA's next Mars ships--a lander and an orbiter set to launch in 1998--should have arrived and begun their own surveys. "We're here for a long visit," said Cunningham. "We're here to stay, essentially." It will be a while before Mars is lonely again...