Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]rthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, Jr. was an African American physicist and educator who helped develop solar telescopes used in 1987 to capture the first detailed images of the Sun’s outermost...
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