Jesse L. Greenstein

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Jesse L. Greenstein
Born
Jesse Leonard Greenstein

(1909-10-15)October 15, 1909
DiedOctober 21, 2002(2002-10-21) (aged 93)
Alma mater
Donald H. Menzel

Jesse Leonard Greenstein (October 15, 1909 – October 21, 2002) was an American astronomer.[1] His parents were Maurice G. and Leah Feingold.

He earned a Ph.D, with thesis advisor

spectrograph and a wide-field camera. He directed the Caltech astronomy program until 1972 and later did classified work on military reconnaissance satellites
.

With Leverett Davis, Jr, he demonstrated in 1949 that the magnetic field in our galaxy is aligned with the spiral arms. His theoretical work with Davis was based on the conclusion just reached by William A. Hiltner that the recently detected polarization of starlight was due to dichroic extinction by interstellar dust grains aligned with the ambient magnetic field.

For the 1965 book Galactic Structure, edited by Blaauw and Schmidt, Greenstein wrote an important chapter on subluminous blue stars.[4]

Greenstein did important work in determining the abundances of the

redshifts as to be almost unrecognizable, but Greenstein deciphered 3C 48 shortly before Schmidt, his colleague at the Hale Observatories
worked out the spectrum of 3C 273.

Honors

Awards

Honors

Named after him

  • 4612 Greenstein

References

  1. doi:10.1063/1.1650245
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  2. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0
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  3. ^ Jessie L. Greenstein, Optical and Radio Astronomers in the Early Years. In Sullivan, Woodruff T. (2005). The Early Years of Radio Astronomy: Reflections Fifty Years After Jansky's Discovery. Cambridge University Press. pp. 67-82
  4. ISSN 0036-8075. p. 680
  5. American Academy of Achievement
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  6. ^ "Jesse Leonard Greenstein". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  7. ^ "Jesse L. Greenstein". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  8. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-09-19.

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