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W. M. KECK OBSERVATORY

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All the work that’s been recognized with this Nobel Prize was done in Hawaiʻi

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Andrea M. Ghez, Nobel laureate, UCLA professor of Physics & Astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics
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Much of what we do is hypothesis testing, or refining previous measurements, but sometimes there is this bolt out of the blue of a completely unanticipated discovery. That is rare, but it is the best!

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Pieter van Dokkum, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University

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