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Don Backer, astrophysicist and discoverer of millisecond pulsars, dies at 66
Don Backer, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley who discovered the first millisecond pulsar, died on 25 July. He was director of Berkeley’s Radio Astronomy Laboratory and the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Hat Creek, California – a collection of 42 dishes that recently began scanning the sky and searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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