Howard Alan Smith is a senior astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, and is the former chair of the astronomy department at Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in

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. A research scientist with several hundred scholarly publications, he served as a visiting astronomer at

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headquarters. He was co-investigator of

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(KAO) discovery of a stellar

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. Active in public education, he has been recognized by Harvard for excellence in teaching. He is a traditional, observant Jew, and has lectured on

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and

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for over twenty years. He taught a cosmology telecourse for Our Learning Company.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Howard Alan Living people American astronomers Harvard University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Jewish American scientists 21st-century American Jews