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Thu, 02/05/2015 - 21:12

I was sorry to hear of the death of Nobel Laureate Charles Townes, but pleased that the AAVSO noted this on its home page.  I had the pleasure of working with him, briefly, on the board of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and he visited Toronto at least twice.  More to the point: he and his colleagues were regular users of AAVSO data, for their research on red giants and supergiants.  We don't have many Nobel Laureates using our data!