Ed Nather
Roy Edward Nather (September, 23 1926 – August 13, 2014) was an American astronomer, who at the time of his death, was professor emeritus in Astronomy at University of Texas at Austin. He pioneered the fields of asteroseismology of white dwarfs, and observational studies of interacting binary collapsed stars.
R. Edward Nather | |
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| Born | Roy Edward Nather September 23, 1926 |
| Died | August 13, 2014 (aged 87) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Other names | Kelley Edwards (pen name) |
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| Spouse(s) | Tommie-Lou Rush (1947-1957) Virginia Wood Palm (1957-1961) Marilane Levine Nather (1962-2014) |
| Children | 5 |
| Awards | Muhlmann Prize (2007) |
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| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | High Speed Photoelectric Photometry (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian Warner |
He served as the director of the Whole Earth Telescope for the first decade of its existence, and achieved internet fame by posting the Story of Mel, a Real Programmer, on Usenet.
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