page_title: Kenneth Franklin
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caption_attribution_description: Title: A brief expedition into science at the American Museum of Natural History Identifier: briefexpeditioni00amer Year: 1969 (1960s) Authors: American Museum of Natural History Subjects: American Museum of Natural History; Naturalists; Natural history; Anthropology; Natural history museum curators Publisher: &#x5b;New York?&#160;: The Museum?&#x5d; Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: Kenneth L. Franklin Assistant Chairman and Astronomer, Department of Astronomy and the American Museum-Hayden Planetarium Joined the Planetarium Staff in 1956 B.A., 1948, University of California at Berkeley Ph.D., 1953, University of California at Berkeley Residence: Rivervale, N.J. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Kenneth Linn Franklin was an American astronomer and educator. Franklin was the chief scientist at the Hayden Planetarium from 1956 to 1984 and was co-credited with discovering radio waves originating on Jupiter, the first detection of signals from another planet. He was often a local and national media figure including during Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, when Franklin was an on-camera astronomy expert for NBC.
context_section_description: Kenneth Linn Franklin (March 25, 1923 – June 18, 2007) was an American astronomer and educator.  Franklin was the chief scientist at the Hayden Planetarium from 1956 to 1984 and was co-credited with discovering radio waves originating on Jupiter, the first detection of signals from another planet.  He was often a local and national media figure including during Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, when Franklin was an on-camera astronomy expert for NBC.
caption: Franklin in the 1960s
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