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Alma mater
  
Indiana University

Fields
  
Astronomy

Education
  
Highland High School

Role
  
Astronomer

Name
  
Arlo Landolt


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Born
  
September 29, 1935 (age 88) Highland, Illinois, U.S. (
1935-09-29
)

Institutions
  
Louisiana State University

Notable awards
  
George Van Biesbroeck Prize

Arlo Udell Landolt (born September 29, 1935) is an American astronomer. Landolt has worked principally in photometry and has published a number of widely used lists of standard stars. In 1995, he received the George van Biesbroeck Prize from the American Astronomical Society. Landolt was the first discoverer of a pulsating white dwarf when he observed in 1965 and 1966 that the luminosity of HL Tau 76 varied with a period of approximately 12.5 minutes. The asteroid 15072 Landolt is named after him.

Education

Arlo Landolt graduated from Highland High School in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Indiana University.

References

Arlo U. Landolt Wikipedia