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Quasars and the Birth & Evolution of Galaxies
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It was on February 5, 1963 (just 8 days before my birth) that astronomer
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Maarten Schmidt ran through the hallways of Caltech announcing that
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he had discovered the high redshift nature of quasars, then known only
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as mysterious points of light recently identified in radio surveys. In
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the interim period our understanding of their place in the universe has
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gone from that of isolated, ultraluminous freaks of nature to crucial
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links in the birth and evolution of massive galaxies. I will present an
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overview of these very recent and dramatic developments.
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