Date
06/30/22
The AAS has released the astronomical obituary of Illinois Emeritus Professor Ed Olson, who passed in 2020. Ed was an expert on eclipsing and mass-transferring binary stellar systems. Read more here.
Edward Cooper Olson (1930–2020)
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