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Frederick C. Leonard
American astronomer
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Meteoritical Society
- In Meteoritical Society
…elected its founder, the astronomer Frederick C. Leonard of the University of California at Los Angeles, as its first president. Annual meetings were suspended during World War II; when they reconvened in 1946, the members adopted the name Meteoritical Society. With the advent of the space age, the society grew…
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