1. Leopold Goldberg was an American astronomer who held professorships at Harvard and the University of Michigan and the directorships of several major observatories.
19 Facts About Leo Goldberg
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Leo Goldberg was president of both the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society.
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Leo Goldberg's 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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Leo Goldberg lived in a tenement building in Brooklyn with his parents and two brothers, two sisters, one brother two years older and the other some eight years younger until a fire destroyed the tenement in 1922.
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Leo Goldberg was in a hospital for some months and his brother for over a year.
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In 1924 Leo Goldberg's father remarried to Bertha Sherer, and they had two children together, Lilian and Harold.
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Leo Goldberg was encouraged by career guidance counselors at the school to pursue a career in engineering since he did well in science and math classes.
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On July 9,1943, Leo Goldberg married Charlotte Belle Wyman, and they married in a Jewish ceremony in Pontiac, Michigan.
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In January 1987 Leo Goldberg married Beverly Turner Lynds, an astronomer who worked at Kitt Peak National Observatory from 1971 until 1986, briefly serving as the Assistant Director.
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Leo Goldberg procured several new telescopes for the university, including an 85-foot radio dish to exploit the new and growing field of radio astronomy.
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Leo Goldberg remained at Michigan until 1960, when he returned to Harvard to take up a professorship.
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Leo Goldberg was the Editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics from 1963 to 1973.
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Leo Goldberg worked extensively in the fields of Solar physics and spectroscopy.
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Leo Goldberg began to play an active role in the IAU while at Michigan, acting as chair of the US delegations to the 10th and 11th general assemblies in 1958 and 1961.
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Leo Goldberg wanted Goldberg to present the US's invitation at the 1958 meeting, but with the condition that the ROC would be admitted immediately.
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Leo Goldberg objected to the idea that the invitation to the 1961 meeting should be contingent on the ROC's acceptance.
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Leo Goldberg offered to resign his position as delegate, but the National Academy of Sciences gave him their support and the ROC's application was allowed to proceed normally.
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The country was admitted in 1959 and the 11th assembly went ahead as planned, with Leo Goldberg chairing the US delegation.
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Leo Goldberg was elected one of the six Vice-Presidents of the IAU in 1958 and served two consecutive three-year terms, ending in 1964.