Wallace L. W. Sargent
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Wallace Leslie William Sargent FRS[1] (February 15, 1935 – October 29, 2012) was a British-born American astronomer[5] and the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.[2]
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Born | Wallace Leslie William Sargent (1935-02-15)February 15, 1935 |
Died | October 29, 2012(2012-10-29) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Education | University of Manchester (BSc, PhD) |
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Awards | FRS (1981)[1] |
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Institutions | California Institute of Technology[2] |
Thesis | Some Problems in Cosmical Gas Dynamics (1959) |
Doctoral advisor | Franz Daniel Kahn[3][4] |
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Website | www |
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