Robert Curry Cameron (1925–1972) was an American astronomer.

Cameron was the son of M. W. Cameron, of Indianapolis, Indiana. He completed an undergraduate degree at Purdue University and a graduate degree in astronomy at Indiana University.[1]

On April 20, 1950, he discovered the minor planet (1575) Winifred at Brooklyn, Indiana.[2] He named the body for Winifred Sawtell, who became his wife and colleague Winifred Cameron.[3] He edited The Magnetic and Related Stars, a collection of papers presented at a 1965 symposium in Greenbelt, Maryland. The lunar crater Cameron was named after him, by his wife.[4]

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