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...much of the wobble has been fixed, thanks to a satellite known as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP. Since July 2001, WMAP has been orbiting in deep space, a million miles from Earth, studying the most ancient light in existence. And in a dramatic reminder that important space science is almost always done by machines, not fragile humans, it reported a series of precision measurements last week that will finally put cosmology on a firm foundation...
...with a resolution some 40 times as sharp as COBE's, WMAP has plenty to say. (The W was added last week in honor of David Wilkinson, the Princeton physicist who helped launch the project but died last summer.) "It's a lot like matching fingerprints," says Spergel. "We ran computer simulations based on many different values for all of the numbers, generated patterns for each and found the one that best matched what we actually...
...Center Director James D. Wilkinson ’65 said he encourages more departments to develop relationships with the Bok Center...
Stare is survived by his wife, Irene, three children from a previous marriage, David Stare, Frederick Stare, and Mary Wilkinson, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren...
...unfair to single out Tomei when Spacek and Wilkinson so gracefully manage most of the movie's heaviest lifting. But they have always been predictably expert actors. Tomei's career path is radically different. She came out of nowhere to win the supporting-actress Oscar, over more prestigious competitors, for her hilarious work in 1992's My Cousin Vinny. Then, and just as suddenly, she faded into off-Broadway plays and smallish roles in obscure films, where she also gained a reputation as "difficult." Now she's back, and damned if people aren't talking Oscar nomination again...