Víctor Manuel Blanco
Víctor M. Blanco | |
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| Born | Víctor Manuel Blanco Pagán March 10, 1918 |
| Died | March 8, 2011 (aged 92) Vero Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Astronomer |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Luminosity Function and Space Distribution of A0 Stars (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Julius Trumpler |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service | United States Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1940–1946 |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
Víctor Manuel Blanco (March 10, 1918 – March 8, 2011) was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered Blanco 1, a stellar cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time. In 1995, the 4-meter telescope was dedicated in his honor and named the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope; it is also known as the "Blanco 4m."