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| First Name |
Harold
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| Last Name |
Johnson
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| Birthday |
17th April, 1921
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| Birthplace |
Denver, Colorado, US
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| Died |
2nd April, 1980
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| Place of Death |
Mexico City, Mexico
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Harold Lester Johnson (April 17, 1921 – April 2, 1980) was an American astronomer. Harold Johnson was born in Denver, Colorado, on April 17, 1921.
He received his early education in Denver public schools and went to the University of Denver, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1942.
Johnson was recruited by the MIT Radiation Laboratory to work on World War II related radar research. After the war Johnson began graduate studies in astronomy at University of California, Berkeley where he completed his thesis under Harold Weaver in 1948. In the following years working at Lowell Observatory, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yerkes Observatory (where he met William Wilson Morgan), McDonald Observatory, University of Texas–Austin, the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico he applied his instrumental and electronic talents to developing and calibrating astronomical photoelectric detectors. He died of a heart attack in Mexico City in 1980. He and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Jones, had two children.
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