Gamma Ray
History
Stirling Colgate tells the story of how his hunch about supernovas shaped both the future of gamma ray astronomy — and world peace.
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Gamma Ray
Science
An early interest in explosives led Dieter Hartmann on a crooked path to science to study the life-ending explosions of stars.
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Gamma Ray
Tools
Neil Gehrels explains how he went from making music to building the detectors that give us our first alert to the most explosive events in the universe.
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Gamma Ray
Impact
Advised not to study astronomy, Chryssa Kouveliotou did it anyway. Now she uses gamma-ray bursts to solve the mysteries of the ancient universe.
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