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American astrophysicist| Leonard Strachan | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982, Harvard University, 1990 |
| Awards | NASA Group Achievement Award for Spartan 201 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | United States Naval Research Laboratory,Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Leonard Strachan is an astrophysicist who works on instrumentation to study the Sun's corona and solar wind. He currently works at the United States Naval Research Laboratory where he is the principal investigator for the Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder, and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Solar and Space Physics.
References
- Oluseyi, H. M. (July 2007). "Contributions from the First Half-Century of African American Astronomers with a Focus on Solar Physics". African Sky. 11: 42. Bibcode:2007AfrSk..11...42O.
- "Committee on Solar and Space Physics". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 June 2020.