Otto Struve

Otto Struve was an astronomer born on 12 August 1897 in Kharkiv, holding citizenship of the Russian Empire and the United States. He studied at the National University of Kharkiv and the University of Chicago, and served in World War I. His father, Ludwig Struve, was also his teacher. He was employed by the University of Chicago and the University of California, and his doctoral students included Philip Childs Keenan, Su-Shu Huang, and J. Allen Hynek. Struve was a member of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Astronomical Union, and he received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Henry Draper Medal, and the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship. He spoke English, Russian, and German, and died on 6 April 1963 in Berkeley.