Zdenek Kopal (1914–1993)

Obituaries for Zdenek Kopal, expert on close binary star systems and founder of the Astronomy Department of the University of Manchester (England), will appear in Physics Today and the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Additional links:

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2808453

• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-zdenek-kopal-1494001.html

• http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/28/obituaries/zdenek-kopal-a-lunar-expert-and-author-79.html