Abstract
Abstract This chapter covers Aden Meinel’s succession to directorship of Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona upon the death of Edwin Carpenter and his focus on developing a new large-aperture telescope for the observatory, hiring new faculty, consulting for the Air Force, and eventually creating a world-class optical science education and research center supported by university President Richard Harvill. His successful NSF grant proposal funded an 84-inch telescope at the university. At the same time, he was consulting on a 48-inch telescope in Hyderabad, India. He laid out a rigorous, interdisciplinary program in optics that found support from both NSF and especially the Air Force, which was interested in surveillance and lasers. With the hire of new faculty and the enrollment of Air Force officers as graduate students, the University approved an Optical Sciences Center, which later morphed into the College of Optical Sciences on campus.
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