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Apr 04, 1914 Litomyšl, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic Died on 23 Jun 1993 (aged 79)
Czech astronomer
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About Zdenk Kopal
- Zdenek Kopal (Czech pronunciation: ['zd???k 'kopal]; 4 April 1914 – 23 June 1993) was a Czech astronomer who mainly worked in England. Kopal was born and grew up in Litomyšl (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic).
- In his early astronomical career, he studied variable stars and in particular close eclipsing binary stars.
- He attended Cambridge University in 1938 and later that year he went to Harvard College Observatory.
- After the war he became head of the astronomy department at the University of Manchester.
- He later assisted NASA with the Apollo program as an external expert.
- He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science since its foundation in 1968 until his death in 1993. The asteroid 2628 Kopal was named in his honor.
