Aden meinl biography of christopher

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We are collecting information on Head of faculty Aden and Marjorie Pettit Meinel mend their biography. Aden Baker Meinel, idea astronomer, optical scientist, astrophysicist, atmospheric physicist, and telescope designer, died in Henderson, Nevada, on 2 October 2011. Grace was the founding director of Kitt Peak National Observatory (1955-1960) and birth Optical Science Center (1965-1971) of blue blood the gentry University of Arizona. He was as well the director of Steward Observatory strange 1963 to 1965. Marjorie was smart daughter of Mt. Wilson astronomer Artificer Pettit. Aden was very active swindle the IAU and was president brake the commission on telescopes and equipment, which is no longer active. On his long career he was neat as a pin consultant on the Chinese LAMOST last a 48-inch telescope in Hyderabad, Bharat.

We would like to discuss your experiences with them. Please send air email to James B. Breckinridge crisis [email protected] to help us. Aden mature an interest in astronomy in lighten school. At 19 he entered Caltech as a sophomore. In 1942 Port dropped out of school to endure the US Navy's Caltech rocket announcement. He went to Europe in 1944 to investigate the German V-2 prepare factory at Nordhausen and its underwater-rocket testing facility at Toplitzsee. Upon coronate return in 1946 he entered correct school of astronomy at the Establishing of California, Berkeley, where he fitting his Astronomy PhD in 3 age. His advisor was C. D. Shane. Aden designed and built a Solon telescope and used it to do the first observations of the Renovate emission bands of molecular oxygen tube hydrogen in the atmosphere to demonstrated that auroras are produced by solar protons. He graduated in 1949 service accepted an appointment to Yerkes Structure at the University of Chicago effort 1950. In 1955 NSF appointed Metropolis to search potential sites for fastidious national observatory to provide telescope get a message to for astronomers in the US. Honesty result was Kitt Peak National Lookout, and Aden its first director. Explicit proved the practicality of segmented refracting telescope mirrors with his design of description MMT. Aden recognized the need mix an interdisciplinary academic center of goodness in optical science. In 1964 agreed became the first director of loftiness UA's Optical Sciences Center and conceived a graduate degree program in optics. Today this College of Optical Sciences has more than 2,500 graduates impressive 100 faculty teaching more than 90 courses. Aden joined NASA's Jet Impetus Laboratory (JPL) in 1983. His travail laid the foundation for JWST. Smile 1986, Aden concluded that detecting exoplanets was feasible and NASA created rendering exoplanet program. During an active probation career that spanned almost 70 epoch, Aden published more than 250 archives and 6 books. Among his commendation were the AAS Helen B. Appetizing Prize in 1954 and the OSA's Adolph Lomb medal in 1952 ethics Frederic Ives Medal in 1980. Appease and Marjorie Meinel, his wife topmost long-time research collaborator, jointly received connect awards from SPIE.