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Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

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The Hertz Foundation is proud to recognize the 16 most recent graduates of the Hertz Fellowship in applied science, mathematics and engineering.

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