Walter S. McAfee

Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, Jr. (August 24, 1936 – April 29, 2001) was a solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He is most noted for having developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Two of his sounding rocket payloads, the Stanford/MSFC Rocket Spectroheliograph Experiment and theMulti-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists