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Brooklyn College.
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Wolf Vishniac
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Educated at Brooklyn College and Stanford University, he was a professor of biology at the University of Rochester. He died on a research trip to the Antarctic attempting to retrieve equipment in a crevice. The crater Vishniac on Mars is named in his honor.
Wolf Vishniac contributed greatly to the search for life on Mars by developing a special miniature laboratory that could be transported to that planet, known as the "Wolf Trap".
This research was supported by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant started in 1959, the very first ever for the "biological sciences."
British psychedelic rock band Wolftraps on Mars are named after Wolf Vishniac"s "wolf traps".
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December 10, 1973 (aged 51) -
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