Labels:bulletin board | person | reckoner | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: Whitney, Charles: (1929 American astrophysicist wha was trained at MIT and Harvard University. In 1956 Whit- became physicist at the Smithsonian astraphysics observa tory and two vears later he joined the faculty f Harvard's astronomy department. He has done researrh on artificial satellites, orbital data, the structure f the earth's upper atmosphere and stellar pulsation In 1987 he pub- lished a substantial article on Van Gogh's night skies in the periodical Art History Whithey astraphysicist astrophysics years Harvand research peniodical