Dr. Arlo Landolt graduated from Highland High School in 1952. He received his BA in Physics and Mathematics from Miami University, Ohio in 1955. He received his Masters in Astronomy from Indiana University in 1960 and his PH.D. in Astronomy from Indiana University in 1963.

Dr. Landolt has been on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University since 1962, rising through the ranks from Assistant Professor and currently is Ball Family Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy. He served as Program Director in Astronomy with the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. from 1975-1976. We was also one of the first to live at the International Geophysical Year’s Amundson-Scott South Pile Station in Antarctica in 1957. In his honor a mountain in the Ellsworth Mountain range has been named after him. Many of Dr. Landolt’s discoveries have been used to calibrate instrumentation on the Hubble Space Telescope as well as on other spacecraft. Dr. Landolt also has the honor of having an asteroid named after him by the International Astronomical Union, and the Landolt Astronomical Observatory on the campus of Louisiana State University was dedicated in his honor in March of 2006.

Dr. Landolt is the longest serving Secretary of the American Astronomical Society, serving 6 terms in office. He was awarded the American Astronomical Society’s George VanBiesbroeck Prize in the 1995. This prize is awarded annually honoring a living individual for long-term achievement in the field of astronomy and for his many years of service to the astronomical community on a variety of committees and boards worldwide. He has also been recognized in American Men and Women in Science, Who’s Who and Who’s Who in the World.