``What is a Theorist Doing in the Stratosphere?"

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...201.0104d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #01.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1092

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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How did Martin Schwarzschild become PI on a project to study the Sun using a robotic telescope under a balloon floating in the stratosphere? And after he made observations sufficient for his needs, why did he continue to sponsor ever-larger ballooning projects? What does Schwarzschild's experience tell us about how the profession of astronomy in America changed in the years just before, and in the wake of, Sputnik?

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