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JULY 9, 1932SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ-SScion of Famous ScientificFamily Will Be Sew Director of Yerkes dbservatory.Dr. OTTO STRUVE, who justhas assumed the directorshipof the famous Yerkes observatory ofthe University of Chicago, is the fifth of a notable family of astronomers to hold such post.Dr. Struve is a young man. He will celebrate his 35th birthday in August. He succeeds Professor Edwin B. Frost, who retired on July 1 at the age of 65.Dr. Frost joined the Yerkes observatory in 1898. He then was the world’s chief expert in the use of the spectroscope. In 1920 his eyes began to fail him and for the lastfew years he has carried on his executive duties in soite of his blindness. xA few years ago, I heard him lecture, using lantern slides which had been made since his blindness. They were pictures which he never had seen except through the eyes of his colleagues.Young Struve belongs to the fourth generation of astronomers in his family. The family, while of German origin, won its scientific distinction in Russia, and, as Dr. Frost said, gave Russia its highest achievement and distinction in science.”
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