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Charles L. Seeger -- radio astronomer, pioneer SETI scientist
David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
Sep. 14, 2002 Updated: Jan. 28, 2012 7:24 a.m.
Charles L. Seeger, a pioneer radio astronomer who began tinkering with his own crystal sets by the age of 10 and conceived the forerunner of a great European radio observatory nearly 50 years later, died of congestive heart failure at his Palo Alto home on Aug. 26. He was 89.
Besides his highly technical engineering skills, Professor Seeger had a lively imagination and an infectious sense of humor. During a television debate about the merits of various scientific disciplines, he advised Melvin Calvin, the Nobel laureate biological chemist: "The trouble with you biologists is that you're always tinkering with nature, while we astronomers only want to observe it and leave it alone!"
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Charles L. Seeger -- radio astronomer, pioneer SETI scientist
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