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Leo Goldberg

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American astronomer

United StatesScientistsLived 1913 to 1987 · aged 74
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Leopold Goldberg 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.

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1984George Ellery Hale Prize
1973Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Leopold Goldberg 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.

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United States
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1913 to 1987 · aged 74
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