Paul Boltwood
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Paul Boltwood is a Canadian amateur astronomer. He is engaged in developing hardware and software for deep sky imaging and in research of brightness variations in active galactic nuclei. He was also acknowledged for his studies of near-nucleus activity in Comet Hyakutake. In 2000 he was awarded with the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Asteroid 8785 Boltwood was named in his honour.
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| Preceded by Warren Offutt |
Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 |
Succeeded by Syuichi Nakano |
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