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Ruth Freitag, librarian to the stars, dies at 96 Ruth Freitag with Isaac Asimov in August 1980. Freitag, a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public, died on Oct. 3, 2020 at a nursing home in Falls Church, Va. She was 96. Library of Congress via The New York Times. by Katharine Q. Seelye (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Isaac Asimov was enthralled with her and wrote her a limerick. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan wrote in their introduction to “...

By Victor Omondi George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer, who designed a telescope used by astronauts on the moon as part of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, is dead at 81 years. The mission was NASA’s attempt to examine Earth’s atmosphere and the composition of interstellar space. Dr. Carruthers had developed an interest in space science from an early age and managed to build his first telescope at 10-years of age. Virtually, his entire career was spent at the Naval Research Lab...

George R. Carruthers, scientist who designed telescope that went to the moon, dies at 81 Matt Schudel, The Washington Post Dec. 31, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer who was the principal designer of a telescope that went to the moon as part of NASAs Apollo 16 mission in 1972 in an effort to examine the earths atmosphere and the composition of interstellar space, died Dec. 26 at a Washington hospital. He was 81. His brother Gerald Carruthers confirm...