Donald Howard Menzel
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Donald Howard Menzel (April 11 1901 – December 14 1976) was an American astronomer.
He studied at the University of Denver and did his Ph.D. at Princeton. He then went to Lick Observatory but left in 1932 for a position at Harvard.
He did solar research at first, but later concentrated on studying gaseous nebulas.
He wrote A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, part of the Peterson Field Guides.