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  2. Joseph Chamberlain (planetarium director) - Wikipedia

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    He received his doctorate from Columbia University in New York City. [1] Chamberlain served in the U.S. Navy as a navigator in the Pacific Fleet during World War II. [1] He was hired as an assistant curator to the Rose Center for Earth and Space in 1952. In 1956, he became the chairman of the planetarium.

  3. American Academy of Religion - Wikipedia

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    Oxford University Press publishes Journal of the American Academy of Religion on behalf of the AAR. [5] Religious Studies News is the quarterly newspaper of record for the organization; it transitioned from a print to online-only publication in 2010. AAR also publishes Reading Religion, an online publication featuring book reviews by scholars ...

  4. Alan J. Pakula - Wikipedia

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    Alan Jay Pakula (/ p ə ˈ k uː l ə /; April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.Associated with the New Hollywood movement, [1] his best-known works include his critically-acclaimed "paranoia trilogy": the neo-noir mystery Klute (1971), the conspiracy thriller The Parallax View (1974), and the Watergate scandal drama All the President's ...

  5. Rose Center for Earth and Space - Wikipedia

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    The new Hayden Planetarium (often called "The Hayden Sphere" or "The Great Sphere") is one of the two main attractions within the Rose Center. The original Hayden Planetarium was established by the State of New York in 1933, with some of the funding coming from philanthropist Charles Hayden . [ 7 ]

  6. Timeline of planetariums - Wikipedia

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    The Hayden Planetarium reopens at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, New York, United States, with a Silicon Graphics Onyx 2 and Trimension video system. 2001: The first mirror-projector combination is demonstrated at the Western Alliance of Planetariums conference in Eugene, Oregon, United States. 2003

  7. Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia

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    Tyson was born in Manhattan as the second of three children, into a Catholic family living in the Bronx. [4] [5] His African-American father, Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927–2016), was a sociologist and human resource commissioner for New York City mayor John Lindsay, and the first director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.

  8. Armand Spitz - Wikipedia

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    Spitz became a volunteer at the new Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia, doing publicity, but soon was allowed to do planetarium lectures. He also created a series of radio programs in which he covered scientific topics, with an emphasis on astronomy. His first book, The Pinpoint Planetarium, appeared in 1940. The first half of the book described ...

  9. Kenneth Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Linn Franklin (March 25, 1923 – June 18, 2007) was an American astronomer and educator. Franklin was the chief scientist at the Hayden Planetarium from 1956 to 1984 and was co-credited with discovering radio waves originating on Jupiter, the first detection of signals from another planet.