| LC control no. | n 80111429 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Nelson, Jerry E. |
| Birth date | 1944-01-15 |
| Death date | 2017-06-10 |
| Place of birth | Glendale (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Santa Cruz (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Astronomy Reflecting telescopes--Design and construction |
| Affiliation | University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers College teachers |
| Found in | Mast, T. S. Figure control for a segmented telescope mirror, 1979 (a.e.) t.p. (Jerry E. Nelson, Lawrence Berkeley Lab., Calif.) New York times WWW site, viewed June 22, 2017 (in obituary published June 21: Jerry Nelson; b. Jerry Earl Nelson, Jan. 15, 1944, Glendale, Calif.; d. June 10, Santa Cruz, Calif., aged 73; conceived of the design for the segmented telescope, which allowed scientists to peer farther into the universe than ever before) |
| Associated language | eng |
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