Leopold Goldberg (26 January 1913 – 1 November 1987) was an American astronomer who held professorships at Harvard and the University of Michigan and the directorships of several major observatories.

The family lived in Michigan, and then in Massachusetts in the 1960s, and eventually to Tucson, Arizona where both Leopold and Charlotte died, although divorced at the times of their deaths.

In January 1987 Goldberg married Beverly Turner Lynds, an astronomer who worked at Kitt Peak National Observatory from 1971 until 1986, briefly serving as the Assistant Director.

He remained there for three years after graduating on a special research fellowship, before being appointed to the staff of the McMath–Hulbert Observatory in Lake Angelus, Michigan in 1941.

[5] In 1946 he was given the job of department chairman and observatory director at Michigan, where he began filling gaps left by a series of recent retirements, deaths, and resignations.

[6] He also began espousing the possibilities of space-based observations of astronomical objects and particularly the Sun, but received little support in this idea—which would have necessitated significant investment in infrastructure—from the university administration.

Much of his work was carried out using observations from satellites, including the fourth and sixth Orbiting Solar Observatories and the space station Skylab.

[10] This would require clearing the offer with the State Department under Secretary John Foster Dulles, and in particular his science adviser Wallace Brode.

[11] He offered to resign his position as delegate, but the National Academy of Sciences gave him their support and the ROC's application was allowed to proceed normally.