Richard Emery "Rich" Lingenfelter (April 5, 1934 – March 20, 2021) was an American astrophysicist and historian.
[5] He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1956.
[6] From 1969 to 1979, he was a professor in residence at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, and in their Department of History.
[7] In 1979, he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as a research physicist, theoretician and senior lecturer.
[5][8] Lingenfelter received a Fulbright Scholarship to serve as a visiting fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research from 1968 to 1969.