Arthur D. Code, a scientist who elevated the field of astrophysics in many ways over his 40-plus years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Wednesday at the age of 85 in Madison after a long illness.
Code was a celebrated scientist who pioneered launching telescopes into space to avoid the distorting effect of Earthâ??s atmosphere.
He once said that seeing the stars from the ground was like “bird watching from the bottom of a swimming pool.”