Told by many, including
the astronomy department chairman, that such molecules could not possibly survive in space, Welch and Townes persisted and in 1968 proved them wrong.
Not exact matches
Taking in the view for hours, Loeb,
chairman of Harvard's
astronomy department and director of its Institute for Theory and Computation, was overwhelmed upon seeing the things he studied as a theorist suddenly made palpable.
Meanwhile, in 1976, a young Ph.D. named Edward J. Weiler landed his first job, as a researcher for Lyman Spitzer, who was
chairman of the
astronomy department at Princeton.
Stephen H. Lepp is the
chairman of UNLV's
department of physics and
astronomy.