Word: astrophysicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother-in-law to die in a state hospital and mulling over the retreat of "personal humanity" before "the worldwide process of consolidation." The woman was an eminent psychiatrist and former Minister of Health whose humanism was incompatible with the Communist regime. Corde's wife Minna is an astrophysicist who defected to the U.S. and must now beg a vindictive bureaucracy for permission to see her failing mother...
Harvey D. Tananbaum, who assisted with the Einstein satellite project, will replace Giacconi when the celebrated astrophysicist begins his new job in September, Cornell said...
...point of this letter to caution the Astronomy department against making these two grave errors. Besides being an eminent astrophysicist, researcher, and author, Chaisson is one of the superb lecturers at the University. His great abilities as an educator should be considered and landed. Kenneth Bookstar...
...grand design, has been made known to man mainly through the free inquiry of science. The true study of evolution, moreover, is a humbling experience that gives man only a tiny niche in the vast scheme of the universe. "Never lose a holy curiosity," Einstein once wrote. Says Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow: "Astronomers have proven that the creation of the universe is the result of forces beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, but the rest of the story, leading from the creation to man, is explained very well by the scientific evidence in the fossil record...
David N. Schramm, a University of Chicago astrophysicist, speculates that relic neutrons--those left over from the Big Bang, the gaseous explosion believed to have formed the universe more than 9 billion years ago--outnumber the protons, neutrons, and electrons that comprise ordinary matter by about 10 billion to 1. The average cubic centimeter in the universe contains about 450 of these relic neutinos. Schram contends that if these particles have even a tiny mass, unlike the current description of conventional physics, scientists can construct a radically different view of the universe and explain several cosmological riddles...