Pontoppidan
Americannoun
noun
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“It’s aesthetically fascinating to see those distant galaxies and get a sense for how small the ice giant appears,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
“People were rushing things a little bit,” says Klaus Pontoppidan, JWST’s project scientist at STScI.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2022
The deepest view of the cosmos “is not a record that will stand for very long,” Pontoppidan said, since scientists are expected to use the telescope to go even deeper.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
“We don’t want to get to the end of the year, and then run out of observations,” Pontoppidan says.
From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2021
Pontoppidan informs us that a sailor, belonging to a ship lying in a harbor of Norway, went into the water to wash himself, when he was suddenly missed by his companions.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
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