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...during his years at Caltech that Greenstein made his most lasting contributions to the field of astronomy...
Greenstein received his doctorate in 1937 from Harvard’s fledgling graduate astronomy department before receiving a grant to work at the University of Chicago. In 1948, Greenstein accepted a post at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he helped to found its optical astronomy graduate program...
...founded the school’s graduate program in astronomy and spent more than 1,000 nights observing the skies from the Hale telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. He wrote, on average, eight and a half papers per year during his time at Caltech...
Along with his Caltech colleague Maartin Schmidt, Greenstein made significant strides in understanding quasars, the most distant stellar formations visible from the Earth...
Kirshner, who teaches Science A-35, “Matter in the Universe,” first met Greenstein as an undergraduate astronomy concentrator during one of Greenstein’s visits to Harvard. Kirshner met up with Greenstein again during his own graduate studies at Caltech...