Info on Walter R. Steiger:

I came to UH Manoa in 1948 as a graduate student in Physics.

After my Ph.D. on the mainland, I returned to UH Manoa in 1953 as the third member of the Physics Department.During my career at Manoa, I began an astronomy program and developed a solar observatory at Makapuu Point on Oahu,which later was supplanted by one on Haleakala, Maui.After an early retirement in 1980, I entered a new form of teaching: operating the Bishop Museum Planetarium.In 1987, looking for another new challenge, I was offered the opportunity to work on Mauna Kea as Site Manager for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory.After retirement from CSO, I was back to my first love, teaching physics, this time at UH-Hilo, as a part-time lecturer.Now I talk and write about the origins of astronomy in Hawai’I and help out CSO with its outreach program.