Víctor Manuel Blanco
Military Person
1918 – 2011
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Who was Víctor Manuel Blanco?
Víctor Manuel Blanco was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1," a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time. In 1995, the telescope was dedicated in his honor and named the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope; it is also known as the "Blanco 4m."
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- Born
- Mar 10, 1918
Guayama - Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Died
- Mar 8, 2011
Vero Beach
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on July 23, 2013
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