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Victor Blanco, a Puerto Rican astronomer who helped build a major outpost for American science, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and shepherded it through 14 years of revolution, counterrevolution and economic turmoil, died on March 8. He was 92 and lived in Vero Beach, Fla.
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Dr. Victor Manuel Blanco Ph.D., (1918-March 8, 2011), was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster.
Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.
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