Background
Menzel, Donald Howard was born on April 11, 1901 in Florence, Colorado, United States. Son of Charles Theodore and Ina Grace (Zint) Menzel.
Menzel, Donald Howard was born on April 11, 1901 in Florence, Colorado, United States. Son of Charles Theodore and Ina Grace (Zint) Menzel.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Denver, 1920, Master of Arts, 1921, Doctor of Science (honorary), 1954. Master of Arts, Princeton, 1923, Doctor of Philosophy, 1924. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard, 1942.
Field Scout executive, Denver, 1920. Summer and part time teacher mathematics Denver public schools, 1921. Instructor mathematics U. Denver, 1919-1921.
Assistant Princeton, 1921-1922, Thaw fellow, 1922-1923, Procter fellow, 1923-1924.
Summer assistant Harvard Observatory, 1922-1924. Instructor astronomy U. Iowa, 1924-1925, assistant professor Ohio State University, 1925-1926.
Assistant astronomer Lick Observatory, 1926-1932. Exchange professor University of California, 1928, 31.
Assistant professor astronomy, Harvard University, 1932-1935, associate professor astrophysics, 1935-1938, professor astrophysics, 1938-1971, Paine professor practical astronomy, 1956-1971, emeritus 1971-1976, department chairman astronomical, 1946-1949, associate director Harvard Observatory for solar research, 1947-1954, acting director, 1952-1954, director, 1954-1966.
Research scientist Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1966-1971. Chairman council Boyden Observatory, 1954-1973. Chief scientist G.C.A. Corporation, 1959-1969.
Science director Electronic Space Systems Corporation, 1972-1976.
Rushton lecturer Birmingham Southern College, 1954. Visiting professor U. Chile, 1963.
State Department specialist for Latin American affairs, 1964-1976. Honorary professor physics, engineering and mathematics Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, Arequipa, Peru, 1972, also awarded gold medal, 1975.
Board of directors, member Executive Committee Association Universities Research in Astronomy, Incorporated., 1957-1966.
Board directors Washington Planetarium and Space Center, 1961-1971. Visiting committee National Bureau Standards, 1951-1954, chairman, 1953-1954. Founder, member, Chairman, Board Of Directors National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 1952-1959.
Member Lick Observatory-Crocker eclipse expeditions, California, 1930, Maine, 1932.
Director Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology eclipse expedition, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1936. Director United States-British eclipse expedition Canada, 1945, Harvard Observatory Expedition to observe Occultation of Regulus by Venus, 1959, eclipse expeditions Minnesota, 1954, Italy, 1961, Massachusetts, 1959, Greece, 1966, Peru, 1966, Mexico, 1970, Mauritania, 1973, Costa Rica, 1973.
Served as corporal R.O.T.C., 1917-1918. Member, chairman radio propagation committee Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff, 1943-1945. Club: Harvard Wireless (trustee).
Married Florence Elizabeth Kreager, June 17, 1926. Children: Suzanne Kay, Elizabeth Ina.