Neta Bahcall, Member
(1982–83) in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses the
forty-year effort of John
Bahcall, Richard Black Professor in the School from 1971 until
his death in 2005, to predict the rate of neutrinos from the Sun.
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In Black Hole Blues: And Other Songs From Outer Space
the astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin chronicles the
decades-long development of a machine that could detect
gravitational waves—a quest marked by the highest degree of human
intelligence...