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  • A council staff person called Retherford and asked him to appear before this week's committee meeting for a hearing on his reappointment.

    Advance Indiana 2010

  • "The detection of mercury in the soil was the biggest surprise, especially that it's in about the same abundance as the water detected by LCROSS," said Kurt Retherford, who worked on one of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter instruments.

    What's the moon made of? NASA mission finds it's nothing so simple as cheese. Marc Kaufman 2010

  • "The primary thing that was driving development here was people's desire and willingness to get out of the city," said Dean Retherford, the broker who negotiated the sale.

    U.S. Farmers Reclaim Land From Developers Robbie Whelan 2011

  • Retherford .308 .538 .357 16 26 6 8 14 3 0 1 7 2 1 0 1 1

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • This occurred, however, in 1947 when Lamb and his collaborator Retherford discovered that some energy levels of hydrogen which should coincide theoretically were in fact somewhat shifted relative to each other.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 - Presentation Speech 1972

  • At the same time, however, I am filled with a deep sense of obligation to my colleagues Robert Retherford, Miriam Skinner, Sol Triebwasser and

    Willis E. Lamb - Banquet Speech 1956

  • "One day, when an astronaut goes to these regions, we need a better sense of what they would see," Retherford said.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • "You would expect there to be more in the permanently shadowed regions than what we see outside," Retherford said.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • "Our best explanation for this difference in reflectance at the poles is that the surface is more porous and fluffier," Retherford told SPACE.com.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • "Instead of sunlight reflected straight off the craters themselves, we go an indirect route," said study co-author Kurt Retherford, a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Tex.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

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