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Roger Angel

American astronomer
Also known as: James Roger Prior Angel
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Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Roger Angel (born Feb. 7, 1941, St. Helens, Lancashire, Eng.) is a British-born American astronomer whose lightweight mirror designs enabled the construction of some of the largest telescopes in the world. Angel received a bachelorā€™s degree in physics from the University of Oxford in 1963 and a masterā€™s degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1966. He earned a doctorate in physics from Oxford in 1967. From 1967 to 1973 he was an associate...

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