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About Robert M. MacQueen
- Robert Moffat MacQueen (born March 28, 1938, in Memphis, Tennessee) received his B.S.
- from Rhodes College in physics in 1960, and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1968 in atmospheric sciences.
- In 1967, he joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as a staff scientist and attained senior scientist status in 1973.
- He was principal investigator for the White Light Coronagraph operated by the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) aboard the manned Skylab satellite from 1970 to 1977.
- In 1974, he received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his Skylab work as principal investigator of the white light coronagraph experiment that took nearly 36,000 photographs during the Apollo flight (it was one of six solar observing instruments).
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