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[[File: LesGoldenCollectedWritings.jpg|thumb|right|125px|<small> The noted author and biographer Jordan Naoum has published collected writings of Golden in his 2011 book, <i>Les Golden</i></small>]] Leslie Morris Golden (''Eliezer Moshe ben Reuven Motl y Chanah Kaileh'', ''Lazar Masche'') was born in Chicago, an identical twin,<ref>His parents are Irving R. (b. 1907) and Anne K. Golden (b. 1909; maiden name, Eisenberg).  Anne had twin brothers, Irving and Sam (b. 1905), and twin uncles on her mother’s side, Michel and Kivah Gerstein (b.1876), making the Golden twins the third successive generation of male twins on the maternal side.  The birth of the Golden twins was one of a record number of twin births at Wesley Memorial Hospital, a part of Northwestern Hospital in Chicago, in early December.</ref><ref>(1943), “Twins Tend Record Twin Crop,” ''Chicago Herald-American'', December 4, p. II-3</ref><ref>Petlicki, Myrna (1997), “Golden memories,” ''Oak Leaves'' (Oak Park, Illinois), July 2, p. B3-6</ref> the son of Anne K. (née Eisenberg; March 7, 1909 – November 19, 1999), a legal stenographer and homemaker, and Irving R. Golden (March 15, 1907 – June 22, 2005), an attorney and co-owner with his father Max Goldstein, an immigrant finish carpenter from Belarus, Russia, of a store fixture and bar manufacturing firm,<ref>Kogan,  Rick (2005), “Lawyer also designed, built bars,” ''Chicago Tribune'', July 24, p. IV-7</ref> and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, where he attended Horace Mann grammar school and Oak Park-River Forest High School.   
 
[[File: LesGoldenCollectedWritings.jpg|thumb|right|125px|<small> The noted author and biographer Jordan Naoum has published collected writings of Golden in his 2011 book, <i>Les Golden</i></small>]] Leslie Morris Golden (''Eliezer Moshe ben Reuven Motl y Chanah Kaileh'', ''Lazar Masche'') was born in Chicago, an identical twin,<ref>His parents are Irving R. (b. 1907) and Anne K. Golden (b. 1909; maiden name, Eisenberg).  Anne had twin brothers, Irving and Sam (b. 1905), and twin uncles on her mother’s side, Michel and Kivah Gerstein (b.1876), making the Golden twins the third successive generation of male twins on the maternal side.  The birth of the Golden twins was one of a record number of twin births at Wesley Memorial Hospital, a part of Northwestern Hospital in Chicago, in early December.</ref><ref>(1943), “Twins Tend Record Twin Crop,” ''Chicago Herald-American'', December 4, p. II-3</ref><ref>Petlicki, Myrna (1997), “Golden memories,” ''Oak Leaves'' (Oak Park, Illinois), July 2, p. B3-6</ref> the son of Anne K. (née Eisenberg; March 7, 1909 – November 19, 1999), a legal stenographer and homemaker, and Irving R. Golden (March 15, 1907 – June 22, 2005), an attorney and co-owner with his father Max Goldstein, an immigrant finish carpenter from Belarus, Russia, of a store fixture and bar manufacturing firm,<ref>Kogan,  Rick (2005), “Lawyer also designed, built bars,” ''Chicago Tribune'', July 24, p. IV-7</ref> and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, where he attended Horace Mann grammar school and Oak Park-River Forest High School.   
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[[File: LesGoldenSemesteratSea.jpg|thumb|left|175px|<small> Professor Golden was the first University of Illinois professor chosen to be a professor on Semester at Sea.  He  taught courses on astronomer and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.</small>]]He holds the B.A. (with Distinction) and Masters of Engineering Physics from Cornell University,<ref name="Cornell">http://www.cornell65.com/interest/golden.html</ref> where he was both a Cornell McMullen Scholar and a Fellow of the Interfoundation Committee of the American Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, Mass.), and received the M.A. and Ph.D in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley,<ref> http://badgrads.berkeley.edu/doku.php?id=alumni:old</ref><ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2006ASPC..356...87F, page 90</ref> under Professor William J. “Jack” Welch,<ref>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/welch.html</ref> the Watson and Marilyn Alberts Chair emeritus in Extraterrestrial Intelligence.  At Cornell, he was the award-winning feature editor and then editor-in-chief of the <i>Cornell Engineer</i> magazine and a member of the Engineering Student Council.  Some of his early research in astronomy appeared in a book by Stephen Hawking.<ref> (1979) Hawking, S. W. & Israel, W. General relativity: an Einstein centenary survey. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22285-0. “A much cited centennial survey”;   
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[[File: LesGoldenSemesteratSea.jpg|thumb|left|175px|<small> Professor Golden was the first University of Illinois professor chosen to be a professor on Semester at Sea.  He  taught courses on astronomer and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.</small>]]He holds the B.A. (with Distinction) and Masters of Engineering Physics from Cornell University,<ref name="Cornell">http://www.cornell65.com/interest/golden.html</ref> where he was both a Cornell McMullen Scholar and a Fellow of the Interfoundation Committee of the American Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, Mass.).  The Cornell website notes him as one of its distinguished alumni writers.<ref>www.collegegrid.com/grid/index.php/Cornell_University</ref>  He received the M.A. and Ph.D in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley,<ref> http://badgrads.berkeley.edu/doku.php?id=alumni:old</ref><ref>http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2006ASPC..356...87F, page 90</ref> under Professor William J. “Jack”   Welch,<ref>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/welch.html</ref> the Watson and Marilyn Alberts Chair emeritus in Extraterrestrial Intelligence.  At Cornell, he was the award-winning feature editor and then editor-in-chief of the <i>Cornell Engineer</i> magazine and a member of the Engineering Student Council.  Some of his early research in astronomy appeared in a book by Stephen Hawking.<ref> (1979) Hawking, S. W. & Israel, W. General relativity: an Einstein centenary survey. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22285-0. “A much cited centennial survey”;   
 
books.google.com/books?isbn=0521222850 </ref>  He performed research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate<ref>http://nrc58.nas.edu/aodir/gen_page.asp?mode=detail&sql=idnumber='760817'</ref> and the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California.  He is the director of the [[Directory:Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance Project|Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance Project]] (N.E.A.R.),<ref>http://www.astronomy.com/sitecore/content/Magazine%20Issues/1994/April%201994.aspx , page 22</ref> which he founded as a University of Illinois at Chicago professor in 1994.  He has been elected to both Phi Beta Kappa (arts and sciences) and Tau Beta Pi (engineering) as well as Pi Delta Epsilon (journalism).  He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Technology and Marquis Who's Who in the World.
 
books.google.com/books?isbn=0521222850 </ref>  He performed research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate<ref>http://nrc58.nas.edu/aodir/gen_page.asp?mode=detail&sql=idnumber='760817'</ref> and the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California.  He is the director of the [[Directory:Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance Project|Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance Project]] (N.E.A.R.),<ref>http://www.astronomy.com/sitecore/content/Magazine%20Issues/1994/April%201994.aspx , page 22</ref> which he founded as a University of Illinois at Chicago professor in 1994.  He has been elected to both Phi Beta Kappa (arts and sciences) and Tau Beta Pi (engineering) as well as Pi Delta Epsilon (journalism).  He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Technology and Marquis Who's Who in the World.
    
In addition to the many citations to his scholarly research in astronomy and the history of science, Golden’s writings and work has been cited in numerous books.<ref>see, for example, <i>The Complete Guide to the Illinois Software Industry</i>, Chicago Software Association; <i>Cornell Engineer</i>, Cornell University College of Engineering; <i>Mix Hypermedia</i>, Mix Publications; <i>The Griffith Observer</i>, Griffith Observatory; http://books.google.com/books?id=99oqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Leslie+M.+Golden%22&dq=%22Leslie+M.+Golden%22&hl=en</ref>
 
In addition to the many citations to his scholarly research in astronomy and the history of science, Golden’s writings and work has been cited in numerous books.<ref>see, for example, <i>The Complete Guide to the Illinois Software Industry</i>, Chicago Software Association; <i>Cornell Engineer</i>, Cornell University College of Engineering; <i>Mix Hypermedia</i>, Mix Publications; <i>The Griffith Observer</i>, Griffith Observatory; http://books.google.com/books?id=99oqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Leslie+M.+Golden%22&dq=%22Leslie+M.+Golden%22&hl=en</ref>
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The noted author and biographer Jordan Naoum has published collected writings of Golden in his 2011 book, <i>Les Golden</i> (Duc Publishing, ISBN 978-6-1368-4994-2)<ref>www.renotransmission.com/installation.html</ref><ref>www.oakparkjournal.com/2012/2012-Book-announced-Golden-bio.html </ref><ref>www.topix.com/forum/games/blackjack/TM5R2SK854B8812DS</ref><ref>www.publishingheadlines.com/biography-of-les-golden-published-by-duc-publishing/</ref> which is available worldwide.<ref>See, for example, www.barnesandnoble.com/w/les-golden-jordan-naoum/1104425304; http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Jordan-Naoum/dp/6136849941/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327941857&sr=1-1; http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=9786136849942;  http://www.betterworldbooks.com/les-golden-id-6136849941.aspx </ref>
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The noted author and biographer Jordan Naoum has published collected writings of Golden in his 2011 book, <i>Les Golden</i> (Duc Publishing, ISBN 978-6-1368-4994-2)<ref>www.renotransmission.com/installation.html</ref><ref>www.oakparkjournal.com/2012/2012-Book-announced-Golden-bio.html </ref><ref>www.topix.com/forum/games/blackjack/TM5R2SK854B8812DS</ref><ref>www.publishingheadlines.com/biography-of-les-golden-published-by-duc-publishing/</ref> which is available worldwide.<ref>See, for example, www.barnesandnoble.com/w/les-golden-jordan-naoum/1104425304; http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Jordan-Naoum/dp/6136849941/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327941857&sr=1-1; http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=9786136849942;  http://www.betterworldbooks.com/les-golden-id-6136849941.aspx </ref>
    
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