Andrew E. Lange
Andrew E. Lange (July 23, 1957 – January 22, 2010)
Early life
Lange was born in Urbana, Illinois on 23 July 1957, the oldest son of Joan Lange, a school librarian, and Alfred Lange, an architect, and he grew up in Easton, Connecticut.[1] Lange received his BA in physics from Princeton University in 1980, and the PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley in 1987, being offered a professorship immediately after.[3] He arrived at Caltech in 1993–1994 as a visiting associate, and was appointed Full Professor in 1994. He was appointed Goldberger professor in 2001, and senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2006.[4]
Family
In 1994, Lange unofficially married Frances Arnold, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), with whom he had two sons, William A. Lange and Joseph I. Lange; the state of California was never notified.[3] In 2016, William died in an accident.
Observations of the cosmic microwave background
Lange's research interests focused on the
In 1987 a Japanese-American team led by Lange, Paul Richards of UC Berkeley, and Toshio Matsumoto of Nagoya University announced that the spectrum CMB was not that of a true
Lange was principal investigator on the
, launched in May 2009, for studying the CMB, and in the effect of gravitational waves on the polarization of the CMB.Prizes and awards
He was elected a
In 2003 Lange and
In 2006 he shared the
Death
Andrew Lange checked into a hotel on January 21, 2010. The next morning housekeepers found him dead, apparently from asphyxiation. The Pasadena Police Department determined his death to be a suicide.[10] A tribute and obituary, penned by theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski, and later published in the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, stated that Lange had battled severe depression, unknown to many of his even closest colleagues, for many years.[11]
References
- ^ a b Janette Williams, Andrew Lange, noted universe researcher at Caltech, dies Archived 2010-05-02 at the Wayback Machine Pasadena Star-News. Retrieved on January 26, 2010.
- ^ Jean-Lou Chameau, in a letter to the Caltech Community, Jan 22, 2010.
- ^ a b Overbye, Dennis (2010-01-27). "Andrew Lange, Scholar of the Cosmos, Dies at 52". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ^ Caltech Press release, January 23, 2010.
- ISSN 0004-6264. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
- ^ "Balloon Sounds out the Early Universe", Science News, Vol 157, No 18, p. 276, April 28, 2000.
- ^ The New York Times, Jan 27 2010 (as corrected Jan 29) "Andrew Lange, Scholar of the Cosmos, Dies at 52"
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Andrew Lange, Ph.D. and Saul Perlmutter, Ph.D. 2003 California Scientists of the Year" Archived June 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Andrew E. Lange dies at 52; Caltech physicist Los Angeles Times, Associated Press story. Retrieved on February 3, 2010.
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External links
- Scientific publications (please notice first results are papers with large number of co-authors)
- How Did The Universe Begin? – Lecture by Andrew Lange on YouTube(duration 1:17:29 / November 9, 2009)
- 2009 Dan David Prize laureate
- Andrew Lange - Daily Telegraph obituary
- Marc Kamionkowski, "Andrew E. Lange", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2016)