Category:Leon Van Speybroeck

**Leon van Speybroeck**
	American astronomer (1935-2002)
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Date of birth	27 August 1935; Wichita
Date of death	25 December 2002; Newton
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science, nuclear physics, unknown value – 1957); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy, nuclear physics, unknown value – 1965);
Doctoral advisor	Henry Way Kendall; Jerome Isaac Friedman;
Occupation	astronomer;
Employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (research associate, 1965–1967); American Science and Engineering (1967–1973); Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1973–2002);
Award received	Bruno Rossi Prize (2002);
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Leon P. Van Speybroeck (Wichita (Kansas), August 27, 1935 - Newton, Massachusetts, December 25, 2002) was an American astronomer who served as Telescope Scientist for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory which was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999.