Herbert Friedman (June 21, 1916 – September 9, 2000) was an American physicist and astronomer who did research in X-ray astronomy.
[1] During his career Friedman published hundreds of scientific papers.
[2] Friedman worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) the entirety of his professional career, from 1940-1980.
[4][5] He received the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1964.
[7] In 1987 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics “for pioneering investigations in solar X-rays”.