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Chandra's then astonishing answer: the collapse would continue, creating even stranger objects whose interiors contained matter unlike anything on earth. Absurd, sniffed Sir Arthur Eddington, Britain's most eminent astronomer, who mockingly said that Chandra's equations pointed to a star whose surface gravity would be...
He retains the potential to shake people out of religious complacency. Given Christinaity's need, on all sides, for a good jolt, eminent Historian Heiko Oberman muses. "I wonder if the time of Luther isn't ahead of us."
That was how the University of Michigan started off its terse summary of the verdict on the Salk polio vaccine. The reading of the report itself took longer, and the setting in the university's Rickham auditorium was elaborate. Under the klieg lights set up for TV and newsreel...
As a political force in modern Lebanon, the Druze were organized and galvanized by the magnetic Kamal Jumblatt, who was once described as "both rebel and statesman, mystic and politician." Three years after he joined parliament in 1946, Jumblatt formed the Progressive Socialist Party, and in the years that followed...
"There's a large list of eminent astronomers who are now kicking themselves because they had the information and never followed up," said Beichman, who explained that while Vega is a star commonly used by astronomers as a sort of "space lighthouse" for calibrating visual instruments, data from countless other...