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Article: The Universe; Astrophysicist sizes up the cosmos Scientist's discovery reshaped prevailing ideas about space.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 3, 1996
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Astrophysicist Margaret Geller stood before a group of visitors in a small room at Harvard in 1987 and revealed a little secret that she and a couple of colleagues had discovered several months earlier:
the structure of the universe.
She showed a universe that was eerie and demanded that those who saw it change their view of what the universe is and how it is shaped. In a trice, her revolutionary vision washed away old mental images of what the universe must be like.
She proved wrong the entrenched belief that galaxies were spread randomly and rather evenly through space.
The image that flashed on the screen has become almost an icon in ...