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...announcement, an overflow crowd had crammed into the meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington last week, and they were not disappointed. "If you're religious, it's like looking at God," proclaimed the leader of the research team, George Smoot, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley. Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel, who had recently co-authored a theory that was demolished by the COBE results, cheerily admitted, "We're dead. But this is great stuff . . . It's the most important discovery in cosmology in the past 20 years...
Between this Scylla and Charybdis, mirror designers are charting a variety of bold, new courses. By designing the Keck Telescope mirror as a mosaic of small segments, each the size of a dining-room table, astronomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley was able to make his mirrors both rigid and thin. But to provide images of pinprick sharpness, each segment must be kept perfectly aligned with its neighbors, a task handled by an elaborate electronic network...
...came in and Elaine said "congratulations,' "Berkeley said...
...religion thing at the Sacred Heart Novitiate, though, only lasted three years. At that point, Brown quit the seminary and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley...
Asked by a good friend how he was able to enroll in Berkeley so quickly, Brown answered, "Are you kidding? My father owns the university...