The AstroStat Slog » University of Chicago http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Go Maroons! http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/go-maroons/ http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/2008/go-maroons/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:50:09 +0000 vlk http://groundtruth.info/AstroStat/slog/?p=504 UChicago, my alma mater, is doing alright for itself in the spacecraft naming business.

First there was Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917).
Then came Arthur Compton (the “MetLab”).
Followed by Subramanya Chandrasekhar (Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics).

And now, Enrico Fermi.

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