Víctor Manuel Blanco

Víctor M. Blanco
Víctor M. Blanco
Born	Víctor Manuel Blanco Pagán; March 10, 1918; Guayama, Puerto Rico
Died	March 8, 2011 (aged 92); Vero Beach, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Puerto Rico; University of Chicago (BS); University of California, Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.);
Occupation	Astronomer
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Puerto Rico; United States Naval Observatory; UNESCO; Case Institute of Technology; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory;
Thesis	Luminosity Function and Space Distribution of A0 Stars (1949)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Julius Trumpler
Military career
Allegiance	United States of America
Branch	United States Army Air Forces
Service years	1940–1946
Conflicts	World War II

Víctor Manuel Blanco (March 10, 1918 – March 8, 2011) was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered Blanco 1, a stellar 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. In 1995, the 4-meter telescope was dedicated in his honor and named the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope; it is also known as the "Blanco 4m."