Golub, Leon 1946-

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Golub, Leon 1946-

PERSONAL:

Born April 6, 1946, in Germany; married Anne A. Davenport (a historian). Education: City College of the City University of New York, B.S., 1967; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1972.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail—golub@cfa.harvard.edu.

CAREER:

Harvard University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, astrophysicist.

WRITINGS:

The Solar Corona, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Jay M. Pasachoff) Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 1, 2001, Gilbert Taylor, review of Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun, p. 1215.

Library Journal, April 1, 2001, Jack W. Weigel, review of Nearest Star, p. 130.

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