Kenneth Irwin Kellermann (born July 1, 1937) is an American

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at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. He is best known for his work on quasars. He won the

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of the American Astronomical Society in 1971, and the

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of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2014. Kellerman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the

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, and the

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. Kellermann was born in New York City to Alexander Kellermann and Rae Kellermann (''née'' Goodstein). His paternal grandparents emigrated from Hungary and his maternal grandparents from Romania.''1940 United States Federal Census''

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Living people 1937 births Members of the Eurasian Astronomical Society Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Scientists from New York City Jewish American scientists American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent American people of Romanian-Jewish descent 21st-century American Jews {{astronomer-stub Members of the American Philosophical Society