Background
Lecar, Myron was born on April 10, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Joshua Lecar and Rachel Stoun.
Astronomer astrophysicist educator
Lecar, Myron was born on April 10, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Joshua Lecar and Rachel Stoun.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951. Master of Science, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963.
Master of Science (honorary), Churchill College, Cambridge, England, 1978.
Physicist Goddard Institute Space Studies, New York City, 1961—1965. Senior astrophysicist Harvard-Smithsonian Center Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1965. Lecturer astronomy Yale University, New Haven, 1961—1965, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1965.
Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1954-1958.