Professor John Huchra, who died on October 8 aged 61, was an astronomer and cosmologist best known for mapping the large-scale structure of the universe, work that revealed thousands of galaxies distributed in thin sheets surrounding huge, bubble-like voids. Read more
John Huchra Dies at 61; Maps Altered Ideas on Universe
John Huchra, a man who loved telescopes and whose pioneering maps of a bubbly universe challenged notions of how the galaxies were born, died on Friday at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 61. Read more