George O. Abell (1927–1983)
Author of Exploration of the Universe
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Image credit: George O. Abell [credit: Ken Nordhauser]
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- Legal name
- Abell, George Ogden
- Birthdate
- 1927-03-01
- Date of death
- 1983-10-07
- Gender
- male
- Education
- California Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
- Occupations
- professor (University of California | Astronomy)
astronomer - Organizations
- University of California, Los Angeles
Griffith Observatory
Committee on Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
International Astronomical Union
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Royal Astronomical Society (show all 7)
American Astronomical Society - Awards and honors
- Asteroid Namesake ("3449 Abell")
The George Abell Observatory at the Open University - Short biography
- George Ogden Abell (March 1, 1927 – October 7, 1983) was an astronomer at UCLA. He worked as a research astronomer, teacher, administrator, popularizer of science and education, and skeptic. Abell received his B.S. (1951), M.S. (1952) and Ph.D. (1957) from the California Institute of Technology under Donald Osterbrock. He began his astronomical career as a tour guide at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Place of death
- Encino, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
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- ISBNs
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