Leo Goldberg | |
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Born | Leopold Goldberg January 26, 1913 |
Died | November 1, 1987 | (aged 74)
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation | Astronomer |
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Children | 3 |
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Scientific career | |
Thesis | The Intensities of Helium Lines (1938) |
Doctoral advisor | Donald Howard Menzel |
Leopold Goldberg (26 January 1913 – 1 November 1987) was an American astronomer who held professorships at Harvard and the University of Michigan and the directorships of several major observatories. He was president of both the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society. His research focused on solar physics and the application of atomic physics to astronomy, and he led many of the early efforts to study the Sun from space telescopes.[1]