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Laird A. Thompson
Laird A. Thompson
(born 6 September 1947), is a professor of
astronomy
at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. Thompson graduated with a B.A. in both
physics
and astronomy from the
University of California, Los Angeles
in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the
University of Arizona
in 1974. He is professionally associated with the
International Astronomical Union
, the
American Astronomical Society
, the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
, the
International Society for Optical Engineering
, and has served as an adjunct member of the Center for Adaptive Optics.
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