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Leonard Strachan

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.

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Leonard Strachan
Alma mater
AwardsNASA Group Achievement Award for Spartan 201
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, Solar Physics
InstitutionsUnited States Naval Research Laboratory, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
ThesisMeasurement of outflow velocities in the solar corona (1990)
John L. Kohl

Leonard Strachan is an astrophysicist who works on instrumentation to study the Sun's corona and solar wind.1 He currently works at the United States Naval Research Laboratory where he is the principal investigator for the Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder,2 and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Solar and Space Physics.3

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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.