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BRILLIANT YOUNG BLACK ASTRO-PHYSICIST WINS MEDALWASHINGTON, D. C. — NASA this week honored Dr. George R. Carruthers of the Naval Research Laboratory here Tor the development of man's first moon-based space observatory, carried to the lunar surface by the Apollo 18 astronauts In April.In a special ceremony at the space agency’s headquarters, NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher presented Dr. Carruthers, one of the nation's outstanding black astrophysicists, with NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.Dr. Carruthers, 32, of NRL’s Space Science Division, developed a unique, far-ultraviolet cam-era-spectrograph for the Apollo mission whichhas taken nearly 200 pictures of the Earth, the Milky Way and other galaxies in far-ultra violet wavelengths not observable from the Earth’s surface. Information from this film, which is undergoing analysis by Dr. Carruthers and his co-investigator, Dr. Thornton Page, Is shedding new light on the structure of the universe, and on the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere.Dr. Carruthers, who was awarded his PhD by the University of Illinois in 1964, received national acclaim in 1970 when a rocket-borne instrument he developed detected molecular hydrogen in Interstellar space for the first time*
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Tampa Florida Sentinel Bulletin
Tampa, Florida, US
Sat, Jul 29, 1972
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