Arlo U. Landolt is an American

United States

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 astronomer

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

. Landolt has worked principally in photometry

Photometry (astronomy)

Photometry is a technique of astronomy concerned with measuring the flux, or intensity of an astronomical object's electromagnetic radiation...

 and has published a number of widely used lists of standard stars. In 1995, he received the George van Biesbroeck Prize

George Van Biesbroeck Prize

The George Van Biesbroeck Prize is an award for long-term achievements in the field of astronomy. According to the American Astronomical Society awards website; "The Van Biesbroeck prize is normally awarded every two years and honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish...

 from the American Astronomical Society

American Astronomical Society

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. Landolt was the first discoverer of a pulsating white dwarf

Pulsating white dwarf

A pulsating white dwarf is a white dwarf star whose luminosity varies due to non-radial gravity wave pulsations within itself. Known types of pulsating white dwarfs include DAV, or ZZ Ceti, stars, with hydrogen-dominated atmospheres and the spectral type DA, pp. 891, 895; DBV, or V777 Her,...

 when he observed in 1965 and 1966 that the luminosity

Luminosity

Luminosity is a measurement of brightness.-In photometry and color imaging:In photometry, luminosity is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to luminance, which is the density of luminous intensity in a given direction. The SI unit for luminance is candela per square metre.The luminosity function...

 of HL Tau 76

HL Tau 76

HL Tau 76 is a variable white dwarf star of the DAV type. It was observed by G. Haro and W. J. Luyten in 1961, and was the first variable white dwarf discovered when, in 1968, Arlo U. Landolt found that it varied in brightness with a period of approximately 749.5 seconds, or 12.5 minutes...

 varied with a period of approximately 12.5 minutes. The asteroid 15072 Landolt

15072 Landolt

15072 Landolt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 25, 1999 by P. M. Motl and W. R. Cooney, Jr. at Baton Rouge.- External links :*...

 is named after him.

Education

Arlo Landolt graduated from Highland High School

Highland High School (Highland, Illinois)

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 in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Indiana University

Indiana University

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External links

• Arlo U. Landolt pages at Louisiana State University
  Louisiana State University
  Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
  
  : http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/landolt/landolt.html, http://www.phys.lsu.edu/dept/people/landolt.html