Not so amateur

Owen Gingerich
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Owen Gingerich: Owen Gingerich is professor emeritus of astronomy and history of science at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7192, 156-156

Abstract: Volunteer star-gazers tracking satellites at the start of the space age often surpassed the professionals.

Date: 2008
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