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Science 25 May 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5521, pp. 1472 - 1475
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5521.1472
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ASTRONOMY:
'Invisible' Astronomers Give Their All to the Sloan

Ann Finkbeiner

The builders of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have committed their time and deferred their careers for as much as a decade to work on a project for which they reap little credit. Individual names can get lost among the 100 or so co-authors of papers based on Sloan data. Their reward is the chance to work on the most ambitious astronomical project in history, one that is reshaping the field.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)