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    Lyman Spitzer Jr. (June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research...
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    telescope in outer space used to observe astronomical objects. Suggested by Lyman Spitzer in 1946, the first operational telescopes were the American Orbiting...
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  • century art dealer, after whom the Spitzer Cross is named Leo Spitzer (1887–1960), Austrian linguist Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), American theoretical physicist...
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    being named in honor of astronomer Lyman Spitzer, who had promoted the concept of space telescopes in the 1940s. Spitzer wrote a 1946 report for RAND Corporation...
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  • of this program changed from H-bombs to fusion power in 1951, when Lyman Spitzer developed the stellarator concept and was granted funding from the Atomic...
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    magnetic mirror. The stellarator was invented by American scientist Lyman Spitzer of Princeton University in 1951, and much of its early development was...
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    U-shape which gives the mountain its vertical drop Donald Morton and Lyman Spitzer made the first recorded ascent of Mount Thor in 1965 during the Alpine...
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    performance. The initial results were released in 1965, but were ignored; Lyman Spitzer dismissed them out of hand after noting potential problems in their...
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  • The Spitzer resistivity (or plasma resistivity) is an expression describing the electrical resistance in a plasma, which was first formulated by Lyman Spitzer...
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    of the Hubble Space Telescope can be traced to 1946, to astronomer Lyman Spitzer's paper "Astronomical advantages of an extraterrestrial observatory"...
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  • to eject material, instead of requiring solar prominences. In 1939, Lyman Spitzer showed that a column of material drawn out from the sun would dissipate...
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    potential military weapon. In 1946, American theoretical astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer proposed an orbiting space telescope. In February 1954, Project RAND...
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  • conservation in the United States. Lyman Spitzer, noted theoretical physicist and astronomer was a member of the club. In 1965, Spitzer and Donald Morton became...
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  • observe the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen 1956 — Lyman Spitzer predicts coronal gas around the Milky Way 1965 — James Gunn and Bruce...
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    graduate school at Princeton University, where his PhD advisor was Lyman Spitzer. At Princeton he had his first child, Christopher Field in 1957. Four...
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  • Gahm, Gösta (1985). "The Crafoord Prize 1985 in Astronomy to Professor Lyman Spitzer Jr". Physica Scripta. 11. IOP Publishing: 3–4. Bibcode:1985PhST...11...
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  • Bang (2013) - Walter Transparent (2015) - Dean Carl Spitzer In the Forest (2022) - Stan (Grandpa) "Lyman Ward". Northernstars.ca. The Canadian Movie Database...
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  • American botanist Lyman Cornelius Smith (1850–1910), American industrialist Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), American theoretical physicist Lyman Tremain (1819–1878)...
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    plasma path, using external magnets. Stellarators were developed by Lyman Spitzer in 1950 and evolved into four designs: Torsatron, Heliotron, Heliac...
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  • Ślopek George J. Smets George D. Snell Leonard Sosnowky Roger W. Sperry Lyman Spitzer Frederick Stewart Heikki Suomalainen Pol Swings Charles Tanford Henry...
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  • (1935), advertising, racecar driver Lyman Spitzer (1935), theoretical physicist and namesake of the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Sonny Tufts (1935), actor...
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    Ślopek George J. Smets George D. Snell Leonard Sosnowky Roger W. Sperry Lyman Spitzer Frederick Stewart Heikki Suomalainen Pol Swings Charles Tanford Henry...
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    Ślopek George J. Smets George D. Snell Leonard Sosnowky Roger W. Sperry Lyman Spitzer Frederick Stewart Heikki Suomalainen Pol Swings Charles Tanford Henry...
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    UV telescope built by Princeton University under the supervision of Lyman Spitzer. The mission also used a new inertial reference unit that was developed...
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  • Disney Company Gaddis Smith, professor emeritus of history at Yale Lyman Spitzer, theoretical physicist Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
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    bursts at temperatures that were not high enough for fusion. This led Lyman Spitzer to express his scepticism of the results, but his comments were dismissed...
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    Ślopek George J. Smets George D. Snell Leonard Sosnowky Roger W. Sperry Lyman Spitzer Frederick Stewart Heikki Suomalainen Pol Swings Charles Tanford Henry...
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  • descendants, the Whitney family Lyman Spitzer Jr., American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. Namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Ariovistus...
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    Ślopek George J. Smets George D. Snell Leonard Sosnowky Roger W. Sperry Lyman Spitzer Frederick Stewart Heikki Suomalainen Pol Swings Charles Tanford Henry...
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    achieving controlled nuclear fusion. Princeton astrophysics professor Lyman Spitzer became the first director of the project and remained director until...
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