Donald Howard Menzel
April 11, 1901 - December 14, 1976
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Howard_Menzel:
Born in Florence, Colorado, Menzel was a very good student, especially interested in mathematics and science. He learned to read very early, learned Morse code from his father, collected ore specimen, became an amateur radio operator, built up a large home chemistry lab, was an Eagle Scout, and learned Spanish. [1]
At 16 years old, Menzel enrolled at the University of Colorado to study chemistry. However, observing the solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 led him to change his course of study to astronomy. Menzel earned an internship at Princeton University, and spent summer vacations at Harvard University as a research assistant to Harlow Shapley.
Menzel studied at the University of Denver and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. After earning his Ph.D. in 1924, Menzel taught at the University of Iowa and Ohio State University before being hired as assistant astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California in 1926. Menzel was among the first theoretical astrophysicists in the world. He worked at Lick Observatory until 1932 when he accepted a position at Harvard. From 1954-56 he was President of the American Astronomical Society. From 1964 to his death, Menzel was a U.S. State Department consultant for Latin American affairs.
He began teaching at Harvard in 1932, and earned full professorship in 1938; in 1952 he was appointed acting director of the Harvard Observatory, and was the full director from 1954 to 1966, when the observatory became an international center of radio astronomy. He retired from Harvard in 1971.
Menzel initially performed solar research, but later concentrated on studying gaseous nebulae. His work with Lawrence Aller and James Gilbert Baker defined many of the fundamental principles of the study of planetary nebulae.
He wrote A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, part of the Peterson Field Guides.
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Fundamental formulas of physics
7 editions - first published in 1955 Borrow -
A field guide to the stars and planets
6 editions - first published in 1964 -
Astronomy
4 editions - first published in 1970 -
Stars and planets
3 editions - first published in 1931 -
Our sun
3 editions - first published in 1949 Borrow -
The world of flying saucers
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
Mathematical physics
2 editions - first published in 1953 -
Writing a technical paper
2 editions - first published in 1961 -
Stellar interiors
2 editions - first published in 1963 Borrow -
Stellar interiors [by] Donald H. Menzel, Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar and Hari K. Sen
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
Osnovnye formuly fiziki
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
Selected papers on the transfer of radiation
1 edition - first published in 1966 -
Elementary manual of radio propagation
1 edition - first published in 1948 -
The universe in action
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
The radio noise spectrum
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
A study of line intensities in stellar spectra
1 edition - first published in 1924 -
Flying saucers
1 edition - first published in 1953 -
Survey of the universe [by] Donald H. Menzel, Fred L. Whipple [and] Gerard De Vaucouleurs
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Selected papers on physical processes in ionized plasmas
1 edition - first published in 1962 -
Astronomy [by] Donald H. Menzel
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
The UFO enigma
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
Eclipse in Ak Bulak
1 edition - first published in 1936 -
Astronomy
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Writing a technical paper [by] Donald H. Menzel, Howard Mumford Jones [and] Lyle G. Boyd
1 edition - first published in 1961 -
Survey of the universe
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
A field guide to the stars and planets, including the moon, satellites, comets, and other features of the universe
1 edition - first published in 1966 -
A field guide to the stars and planets: including the moon, satellites, comets and other features of the universe
1 edition - first published in 1977 Borrow
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- Known to children as Donald Duck
History Created April 1, 2008 · 8 revisions
| December 13, 2010 | Edited by Franklin Davis | Edited without comment. |
| December 13, 2010 | Edited by Franklin Davis | Edited without comment. |
| December 13, 2010 | Edited by Franklin Davis | I am his grandson; added bio from Wikipedia. Will add more in future. |
| May 28, 2009 | Edited by Edward Betts | revert |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |