Don E. Winget is an American astronomer and astrophysicist who studies white dwarf stars.
Winget's doctoral research at the University of Rochester predicted the existence of DBV stars, a certain class of pulsating white dwarf.
[3] With Ed Nather, his colleague at University of Texas, Winget introduced the technique for studying the seismology and the inner structure of white dwarfs called "Whole Earth Telescope".
[4] One of Winget's projects involves studying white dwarfs using the Z machine pulsed-power electromagnetic wave generator at the Sandia National Lab in New Mexico.
[3] He received the 1987 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society.