Leonard Strachan

{{short description|American astrophysicist}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Astrophysics, Solar Physics

| workplaces = United States Naval Research Laboratory, Center for Astrophysics {{!}} Harvard & Smithsonian

| alma_mater = {{Unbulleted list | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982 | Harvard University, 1990 }}

| thesis_title = Measurement of outflow velocities in the solar corona

| thesis_url = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990020299490203941/catalog

| thesis_year = 1990

| doctoral_advisor = John L. Kohl

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| awards = NASA Group Achievement Award for Spartan 201

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Leonard Strachan is an astrophysicist who works on instrumentation to study the Sun's corona and solar wind.{{cite journal |last=Oluseyi |first=H. M. |date=July 2007 |title=Contributions from the First Half-Century of African American Astronomers with a Focus on Solar Physics |journal=African Sky |volume=11 |pages=42 |bibcode=2007AfrSk..11...42O |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AfrSk..11...42O%2F}} He currently works at the United States Naval Research Laboratory where he is the principal investigator for the Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder,{{Cite web|title=NASA TechPort|url=https://techport.nasa.gov/view/79704|access-date=2020-06-24|website=techport.nasa.gov|language=en}} and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Solar and Space Physics.{{cite web |title=Committee on Solar and Space Physics |url=https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/committee-on-solar-and-space-physics |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=16 June 2020}}