OLIN C. WILSON WAS a stellar spectroscopist who spent his entire research career (1932-82) observing at the Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories. He is known for being the first person to derive activ...
Throughout his life Rossi reveled in the natural beauty of the mountains, where he did many of his cosmic-ray experiments, the desert around Los Alamos, where he worked on the atomic bomb, and the sea...
IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY the discovery of new asteroids was still far from routine. These objects had not yet grown so numerous as to earn for themselves the contemptuous label later applied, "ve...