astrophysicist
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Snyder drove to the nearby home of Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who went outside to his front porch to see what was going on, according to a Los Angeles County district attorney’s office news release.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
In the immediate aftermath of the brutal 1989 crackdown on students who had protested in Tiananmen Square, dissident astrophysicist Fang Lizhi sought refuge in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
These discoveries could fundamentally change our understanding of the structure of our universe, said astrophysicist Julie McEnery, who led the Roman project.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
The famous Miura fold, developed by Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura, folds a sheet of material into parallelograms, allowing it to fold down very compactly.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
The term supernova was coined in the 1930s by a memorably odd astrophysicist named Fritz Zwicky.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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