Victor Manuel Blanco
(1918-2011)
Puerto Rican astronomer
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Víctor Manuel Blanco (March 10, 1918 – March 8, 2011) was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered Blanco 1, a galactic 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."
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10 March 1918 Guayama, Puerto Rico
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8 March 2011 (aged 92) Vero Beach, Florida
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