Lyman Spitzer Jr. (June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research...

telescope in outer space used to observe astronomical objects. Suggested by Lyman Spitzer in 1946, the first operational telescopes were the American Orbiting...

century art dealer, after whom the Spitzer Cross is named Leo Spitzer (1887–1960), Austrian linguist Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), American theoretical physicist...

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...

magnetic mirror. The stellarator was invented by American scientist Lyman Spitzer of Princeton University in 1951, and much of its early development was...

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...

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...

electrical resistance in a plasma, which was first formulated by Lyman Spitzer in 1950. The Spitzer resistivity of a plasma decreases in proportion to the electron...

performance. The initial results were released in 1965, but were ignored; Lyman Spitzer dismissed them out of hand after noting potential problems in their...

Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA). Doreen married the astronomer Lyman Spitzer on June 29, 1940, and they had four children: Nicholas, Dionis, Sarah...

of the Hubble Space Telescope can be traced to 1946, to astronomer Lyman Spitzer's paper "Astronomical advantages of an extraterrestrial observatory"...

potential military weapon. In 1946, American theoretical astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer proposed an orbiting space telescope. In February 1954, Project RAND...

critical part of magnetic confinement fusion devices, first introduced by Lyman Spitzer in the 1950s for the stellarator concept. It extracts heat and ash produced...

plasma path, using external magnets. Stellarators were developed by Lyman Spitzer in 1950 and evolved into four designs: Torsatron, Heliotron, Heliac...

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...

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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senator from New Jersey Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), astronomer John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), U.S. senator...

American botanist Lyman Cornelius Smith (1850–1910), American industrialist Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), American theoretical physicist Lyman Tremain (1819–1878)...

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...

Microsoft Emerging Explorers Grant Galen Rowell Memorial Photography Award Lyman Spitzer Adventure Award: K7 Climbing Expedition Polartec Grant Recipient: K7...

descendants, the Whitney family Lyman Spitzer Jr., American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. Namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Ariovistus...

Richard B. Kershner Edward W. Bonnett Antonio Ferri Theodore D. Smith Lyman Spitzer Laurence J. Adams Franklin W. Kolk Walter O. Lowrie Thomas G. Pownall...

Ślopek George J. Smets George D. Snell Leonard Sosnowky Roger W. Sperry Lyman Spitzer Frederick Stewart Heikki Suomalainen Pol Swings Charles Tanford Henry...

Gahm, Gösta (1985). "The Crafoord Prize 1985 in Astronomy to Professor Lyman Spitzer Jr". Physica Scripta. 11. IOP Publishing: 3–4. Bibcode:1985PhST...11...

Bang (2013) – Walter Transparent (2015) – Dean Carl Spitzer In the Forest (2022) – Stan (Grandpa) "Lyman Ward". Northernstars.ca. The Canadian Movie Database...

Ślopek George J. Smets George D. Snell Leonard Sosnowky Roger W. Sperry Lyman Spitzer Frederick Stewart Heikki Suomalainen Pol Swings Charles Tanford Henry...

Princeton and Pasadena, an interlude that led to a paper by Oort and Lyman Spitzer on the acceleration of interstellar clouds by O-type stars. He went...

Paul Willard Merrill (1956–1958) Gerald Maurice Clemence (1958–1960) Lyman Spitzer Jr. (1960–1962) Carlyle Smith Beals (1962–1964) Leo Goldberg (1964–1966)...

Fred Hoyle 1971 – Jesse Greenstein 1972 – Iosif S. Shklovskii 1973 – Lyman Spitzer Jr. 1974 – Martin Ryle 1975 – Allan R. Sandage 1976 – Ernst J. Öpik...