Víctor Manuel Blanco
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Víctor Manuel Blanco (March 10, 1918 – March 8, 2011) was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered Blanco 1, a stellar cluster.[1][2] Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.[3] In 1995, the 4-meter telescope was dedicated in his honor and named the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope; it is also known as the "Blanco 4m."[4]
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Born | Víctor Manuel Blanco Pagán (1918-03-10)March 10, 1918 |
Died | March 8, 2011(2011-03-08) (aged 92) Vero Beach, Florida, U.S. |
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Occupation | Astronomer |
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Thesis | Luminosity Function and Space Distribution of A0 Stars (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Julius Trumpler |
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Allegiance | United States of America |
Service/ | United States Army Air Forces |
Years of service | 1940–1946 |
Battles/wars | World War II |
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