William Johnson McDonald
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William Johnson McDonald
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William Johnson McDonald was a Paris, Texas banker who left $850,000 to the University of Texas System to endow an astronomical observatory. The bequest was unexpected, and his will was contested, but after prolonged legal disputes the university received the money. At the time, the university had no faculty of astronomy, so in 1932 it formed a collaboration with Otto Struve at the University of Chicago, who supplied astronomers. The McDonald Observatory is named after him, with Otto Struve beco
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