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Andrew P. Odell is an American astronomer who is active in research of the evolution of stars and galaxies. He was born in Galesburg IL on May 6, 1949, and graduated with honors from University of Iowa in 1970. He earned a PhD in Astrophysics in 1974 at University of Wisconsin with thesis under Dr. John Mathis on "The Evolutionary History of Spica." He was assistant professor in Earth Science at University of Northern Iowa until 1979. From 1979 to 1981 he worked at University of Arizona in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and Steward Observatory. In 1981 he moved to Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where he taught and did research until retirement in 2001. He is now an emeritus faculty from NAU, continuing his research at Lowell and Steward Observatories.