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RARE "Radio Astronomy" Leo Goldberg Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Radio Astronomy" Leo Goldberg Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

– 1 November 1987) was an American astronomer who held professorships at Harvard and the University of Michigan and

the directorships of several major observatories. He was president of both

the International Astronomical

Union and the American Astronomical

Society. His research focused on solar physics and the application of atomic physics to astronomy, and he led many of the early

efforts to study the Sun from space telescopes. Goldberg

was born in the Brooklyn section of New York City to Jewish immigrant parents, Harry and Rose

Goldberg née Ambush, from eastern Poland, (then part of the Russian Empire). He lived in a tenement building in Brooklyn with his parents and two

brothers, two sisters, one brother two years older and the other some eight

years younger until a fire destroyed the tenement in 1922. The fire killed his

mother and infant brother and hospitalized the nine-year-old Leo and his older

brother. Goldberg was in a hospital for some months and his brother for over a

year. In 1924 Goldberg's father remarried to Bertha Sherer, and they had two

children together, Lilian and Harold. A year later the family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts.

His father, a milliner, set up a store there and

Goldberg worked there on his evenings and weekends during his high school years.b  Goldberg was

encouraged by career guidance councilors at the school to pursue a career in

engineering since he did well in science and math classes. He originally

decided to apply to MIT, but since this would have put him and his brother—who had

been placed in the same year as him because of his extended hospital stay—in

competition for a single scholarship, supposedly because of their religion, he

decided to withdraw and work in his father's store for another year. In

1930 he enrolled in the Harvard Engineering School on a

tuition scholarship from the New Bedford Harvard Club. While there he took an

introductory astronomy course and decided to change his major to astronomy at the start of his fourth year. Goldberg

worked extensively in the fields of Solar physics and spectroscopy. Much of his work was carried out using

observations from satellites, including the fourth and sixth Orbiting Solar Observatories and

the space station Skylab.   

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