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UW astrophysicist left ‘big footprint’ on the stars

Just because something couldn’t be seen did not mean that it couldn’t be mapped.

William Kraushaar, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a pioneer in the field of high-energy astrophysics, developed experiments that created the first gamma ray map of the sky, showing gamma rays from both the Milky Way galaxy and beyond. He died on March 21.