Leonard Strachan

Leonard Strachan
Leonard Strachan
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982; Harvard University, 1990;
Awards	NASA Group Achievement Award for Spartan 201
	Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics, Solar Physics
Workplaces	United States Naval Research Laboratory, Center for Astrophysics \| Harvard & Smithsonian
Thesis	Measurement of outflow velocities in the solar corona (1990)
Doctoral advisor	John L. Kohl

Leonard Strachan is an astrophysicist who works on instrumentation to study the Sun's corona and solar wind. He currently works at the United States Naval Research Laboratory where he is the principal investigator for the Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder, and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Solar and Space Physics.

References

↑ Oluseyi, H. M. (July 2007). "Contributions from the First Half-Century of African American Astronomers with a Focus on Solar Physics". African Sky. 11: 42. Bibcode:2007AfrSk..11...42O.
↑ "NASA TechPort". techport.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
↑ "Committee on Solar and Space Physics". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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[1] Oluseyi, H. M. (July 2007). "Contributions from the First Half-Century of African American Astronomers with a Focus on Solar Physics". African Sky. 11: 42. Bibcode:2007AfrSk..11...42O.

[2] "NASA TechPort". techport.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-24.

[3] "Committee on Solar and Space Physics". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 June 2020.