Haworth

(1952 FM )
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30.3.1952 00:00 Brooklyn 24e45 59n26 observations 1


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Named in honor of Leland J. Haworth, a graduate of Indiana University and second director of the National Science Foundation. His long and varied career included high school teaching, academic appointments at Wisconsin, MIT, and Illinois, director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, vice-president and president of Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), member of the Atomic Energy Commission, and director of the National Science Foundation from 1963 to 1969. He conducted the negotiations which led to the joint funding by NSF and the Ford Foundation of a 4 meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. (M 4156) _ _.


Avastatud: 30-3-1952 Avastamiskoht: Brooklyn Avastajad: Indiana University

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