Background
His family moved to Cleveland soon after he was born, where Sanduleak did undergraduate work at the Case Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelor of Surgery in 1956.
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Nicholas Sanduleak
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Case Western Reserve University.
Career
Sanduleak"s parents were born in Romania. After serving in the Army, Sanduleak came back to Case Institute, receiving a master"s degree in 1961 and a doctorate in 1965. His advisor was Doctor Victor Manuel Blanco.
After working at the Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo Observatories, Sanduleak moved to the Warner and Swasey Observatory, where he remained until his death from cardiac arrest.
Sanduleak was a spectroscopist who worked on a number of very large objective prism surveys. He was the first to discover metallicity differences between the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and wrote papers about a number of spectroscopically interesting objects.
He produced a catalogue of stars in the Magellanic Clouds which included the star Sanduleak -69° 202, the progenitor of the supernova SN 1987A. The asteroid 9403 Sanduleak is named after him.
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