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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Technical Abstract Bulletin
Author: Final environmental impact statement supplement for the Federal Coal Management Program
Author: The Office of Environmental Management Technical Reports
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Category : Environmental management
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Title List of Documents Made Publicly Available
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Resources in Education
Author: Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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Category : Internal revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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With Stars in Their Eyes
Author: Jim Bernard BreckinridgePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190915676
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
"Aden B. Meinel and wife Marjorie P. Meinel stood at the confluence of several overarching technological developments of the 20th century: postwar aerial surveillance by spy planes and satellites, solar energy, the evolution of telescope design, interdisciplinary optics, and photonics. In 1945 he was a Navy Ensign ordered to find the secret tunnels in Nazi Germany where the V-2 rockets menacing Great Britain and Belgium were being manufactured. After receiving both his B.A. degree and Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley within three years, Aden was invited to join the scientific staff at Yerkes Observatory/University of Chicago. While there he was selected by the National Science Foundation to manage the development of a new national observatory on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and served as its first Director. In the early 1960s he founded the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, which later metamorphosed into the College of Optical Sciences with the doctoral program in interdisciplinary optics. It was here that he also designed the first Multiple Mirror Telescope and with wife Marjorie pioneered the feasibility of solar energy power on a commercial scale. Aden's knowledge and expertise in optics made him invaluable in research on cameras for spy satellites and spy planes overflying the Soviet Union and Southeast Asia. After retirement the Meinels worked for NASA/JPL on the precursor of the James Webb Space Telescope and on the exoplanet program. They also served on the team that corrected spherical aberration in the Hubble Space Telescope"--
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