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After attending the Horace Mann School for Boys, Greenstein entered Harvard at age 16. Following his graduation in 1929, Greenstein put astronomy on hold to work in his family’s real estate business, helping them through the early years of the Great Depression...
...Greenstein is remembered by his colleagues for his groundbreaking work on quasi-stellar objects, known as quasars, and White Dwarfs, which are remnants of destroyed stars. His advances provided evidence for the existence of black holes...
...Greenstein received his doctorate in 1937 from Harvard’s fledgling graduate astronomy department before receiving a grant to work at the University of Chicago. In 1948, Greenstein accepted a post at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he helped to found its optical astronomy graduate program...
...1960s, at the apex of his career, Greenstein was a member of an advisory body that helped form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...Greenstein was born in New York City in 1909. When he was eight-years-old, his grandfather gave him a brass telescope, which ignited his obsession with stars. As a child, he built his own astronomical equipment, including a spectroscope, an instrument used to examine wavelengths of light...