By the 1950s, the Lowell Observatory was stagnant. The three senior astronomers had been there for decades and were no longer doing research or pubslising. Yet they jealously guarded the telescopes and prevented younger colleigues from using them effectively. Finally, the Trustee decided he had to make a change. He brought in mathematician Alber Wilson, who had been leading the Palomar sky survey for Caltech. Wilson started the Observatory on the road to modernity but ran into personal problems and retired after two years. John Hall became director in 1958, just as the American reaction to Sputnik made abundant Federal resources available to science. In his ninteen years as director Hall completely revived the historic institution and brought it into the late twentieth century.
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