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Kenneth Franklin
American astronomer, educator (1923–2007) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kenneth Linn Franklin (March 25, 1923 – June 18, 2007) was an American astronomer and educator. Franklin was the chief scientist at the Hayden Planetarium from 1956 to 1984 and was co-credited with discovering radio waves originating on Jupiter, the first detection of signals from another planet.[1][2] He was often a local and national media figure including during Apollo 11, the first human mission to the moon, when Franklin was an on-camera astronomy expert for NBC.[1]
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Kenneth L. Franklin | |
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![]() Franklin in the 1960s | |
Born | March 25, 1923 |
Died | June 18, 2007(2007-06-18) (aged 84) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | Hayden Planetarium, Jupiter |
Scientific career | |
Fields | astronomy |
Thesis | A spectrophotometric investigation of Capella (1953) |
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