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This Invited Lecture looks back twenty years and recalls the early professional career of Dr. Minoru (Mino) M. Freund, as seen through the eyes of the current Director for Science at NASA’s Ames Research Center. The focus is placed on Dr. Freund’s role on the Infrared Telescope Space, a joint Japan-NASA collaboration in the 1990s.
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Bicay, M.D. (2014). Mino in Japan: The Infrared Telescope in Space. In: Freund, F., Langhoff, S. (eds) Universe of Scales: From Nanotechnology to Cosmology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02207-9_9
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