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Martin Tomasko I came here when the place was just a research lab. There were three groups: There was Gerard Kuiper, who did infrared astronomy and had Hal Larson and Uwe Fink. There was Frank Low who did infrared astronomy with George Rieke, and then there was Tom Gehrels, who had a couple of people who did polarization measurements of various things. But it was just a research lab. Kuiper was getting close to retiring and he thought maybe the place had a lot better chance of long-term survival if it had an academic department. The place has really been strengthened in the process. Now there are people with strong theoretical interests and people with strong experimental interests and the two groups are here both at the same place, and the feedback and interchange between the people who make the observations and the people who make the models and theorize about the observations is particularly good. It’s a real strength of the place. |
William Hubbard I was recruited by Gerard Kuiper. He was a very energetic person, especially given his age. He was very enthusiastic about his new department, and he took me on a tour of all of his observing sites around the area. We went up to Tumamoc Hill where he had a planetary monitoring station—the telescope is still there—and we went up to the Catalinas and looked at what’s called Catalina Station, sometimes called the Mt. Bigelow site now. We also went up to the Mt. Lemmon summit where he had just, not long before that, taken over the old Air Force site. He had a couple of telescopes up there. He talked to me about where he thought the Laboratory was heading and what he thought my role would be in it. The way he expressed it to me was that the Department was going to be an essential component for keeping the Laboratory in existence. At that time it was only LPL; there was no Department. He thought that in order to ensure the longevity of the whole enterprise that we needed an academic arm; we needed to have graduate students, we needed to have a teaching program. |
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