D. Harold McNamara
American astronomer, previous editor of the Publications of the American Society of the Pacific
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, D. Harold McNamara, Ph.D. was an American astronomer at Brigham Young University and an internationally recognized authority in intrinsic variable and eclipsing binary stars. McNamara received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950. His dissertation was entitled "A Two Color Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Variable, YZ Cassiopeia". Following his Ph.D. he spent five years teaching and researching with the renown Professor Otto Struve. In 1955, he joined Brigham Young University as the first faculty member whose training was primarily in the field of astronomy. He then inaugurated the graduate program in astrophysics at BYU in 1957. He authored or co-authored more than 100 publications and has presented in different countries around the world.
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