What is Otto Struve?
[[File:Otto Struve US post 1949crop.JPG|thumb|200px|Otto Struve]] '''Otto Struve''' (12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963) was a [[Russia]]n [[astronomer]]. He was the grandson of [[Otto Wilhelm von Struve]] and the great-grandson of [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Struve]]. Struve's education at the [[University of Kharkov]] was interrupted by [[World War I]] and the Russian Civil War, which left him a refugee in [[Turkey]]. He went to the [[United States]] in 1921, obtained a Ph.D. from the [[University of Chicago]] and eventually became head of the astronomy department there. In 1932, he was made joint director of the university's Yerkes Observatory and McDonald Observatory (which he founded and where a telescope is named after him). Struve may be regarded as the father of modern [[SETI]]. He was one of the few eminent astronomers in the pre-Space Age era to publicly express a belief that extraterrestrial intelligence was abundant. {{DEFAULTSORT:Struve, Otto}} [[Category:Russian astronomers]] [[Category:1897 births]] [[Category:1963 deaths]] [[Category:Refugees]] {{bio-stub}}