Michael da Silva Coates (1942-2014) was a college friend of the discoverer. After graduating from St Andrews University in Scotland, he worked as a Clinical Psychologist helping countless children deal with the trauma of broken homes and abusive upbringing. He loved music and had a successful hobby recording choirs and orchestras in Canada and Shetland.

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Richard Conn Henry (b. 1940) is an American Academy Professor at the Johns Hopkins University specializing in far ultra-violet observations. He directs NASA's Maryland Space Grant Consortium and is a former Deputy Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division. He works with the New Horizons Science Team to use the spacecraft for astrophysical investigations.
B.Sc. University College, University of Toronto and RASC Gold Medal 1961
University of Toronto M.Sc. Thesis 'Spectrophotometry of globular clusters' 1962, Ph.D. Princeton 1967

Jason D. Hofgartner (b. 1988) is a Canadian planetary scientist. He served as a science team graduate student researcher on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.