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Researchers in the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Physics & Astronomy were among thousands of scientists ...

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In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

Richard Hamming, a famous mathematician and computer scientist, always asked an important question: “What are the most important problems in your field, and why aren’t you working on them?” At the ...