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Josiah Meigs, the second president of the University of Georgia, implemented the state's first physics curriculum at the university in 1801. During the following ten years, Meigs also served as the only professor of natural philosophy and conducted research in meterology and astronomy.
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This photograph of the physics building at the Georgia Institute of Technology appeared in 1925 in the school's yearbook, The Blueprint. During the 1920s and 1930s, department head J. B. Edwards focused on applied research, forging strong connections with public and private companies.
Rollins Planetarium, on the campus of Young Harris College in Towns County, opened in 1979 and is one of the largest planetariums in the state. The Young Harris College Observatory, also located on campus, houses a sixteen-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, which is used in undergraduate astronomy courses.
Courtesy of Kent Montgomery
The seventy-foot planetarium at the Fernbank Science Center is one of the largest in the country.
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Members of the board for the Nuclear Threat Initiative include, back row, left to right: Fujia Yang, Eugene E. Habiger, Hisashi Owada, Susan Eisenhower, Sam Nunn, Ted Turner, Andrei Kokoshin, Jessica Mathews, Charles B. Curtis, Prince El Hassan bin Talal. Front row, left to right: William Perry, Rolf Ekeus, Richard G. Lugar, Nafis Sadik.
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In the Museum of Arts and Science's planetarium the night sky is recreated with more than 4,000 twinkling stars. Planetarium shows are presented daily, and a weekly program provides the latest information about current and upcoming celestial events.
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The Rollins Planetarium at Young Harris College opened in 1979 and is one of the largest in the state.
Courtesy of Kent Montgomery
The Coca-Cola Space Science Center at Columbus State University in Columbus opened in 1996. The facility offers astronomy classes, sponsors mobile astronomy programs, and houses the Mead Observatory, which features a remote-controlled sixteen-inch solar observing telescope.
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