John Spencer

Institute Scientist, Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Astronomer, Lowell Observatory, 1991 - 2004.

The history of cosmology is not the easy story of the rejection of absurd ideas in favour of what (perhaps after a little thought) is seen to be patently true, but the heroic saga of the hard-won rejection of the patently true in favour of the absurd.
Michael Hoskin, 1997, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy

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E-mail: spencer(at)boulder(dot)swri(dot)edu

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