Bio:D. R. Barber

Formerly superintendent of the Norman Lockyer Observatory of the University of Exeter. Born in 1901, was educated at St. John's Hospital and Heles schools, Exeter; graduated with honours in physics (B.Sc.), London University, 1925. Lecturer in physics at Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, Newton Abbot 1930 to 1936, where he did biological research work for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Became Assistant Astronomer at Norman Lockyer Observatory, Sidmouth in 1936. Worked as Martin Kellogg Fellow in Astronomy at the Lick Observatory of the University of California, 1940-1941. At Kodak Research Laboratories, Harrow, 1941-1945. Returned to the Norman Lockyer Observatory in 1945 as Chief Assistant, was appointed Superintendent in 1956, retiring in 1961. Is a fellow of the Institutes of Physics, of the Royal Astronomy Society and of the Royal Photographic Society.

Donald Barber died in August 2000. His obituary is printed in the Blackwell Synergy® online journal: Astronomy & Geophysics - The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society.