Wallace L. W. Sargent
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Born | Wallace Leslie William Sargent February 15, 1935 |
Died | October 29, 2012 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 77)
Education | University of Manchester (BSc, PhD) |
Spouse | |
Awards | FRS (1981)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology[2] |
Thesis | Some Problems in Cosmical Gas Dynamics (1959) |
Doctoral advisor | Franz Daniel Kahn[3][4] |
Doctoral students | |
Website | www |
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]
Education
Sargent was born in
Career and research
Sargent spent the majority of his career at California Institute of Technology (Caltech),[2] excepting an absence of four years during which he claims to have had to go back to England to find himself a wife, Anneila Sargent.
Sargent carried out research in many areas of astronomy including
He supervised the theses of a number of students while at Caltech, including John Huchra,[3] Edwin Turner, Peter J. Young, Charles C. Steidel, and Alex Filippenko.[9]
He was director of the Palomar Observatory from 1997 to 2000.
Awards and honors
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1969)
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1991)
- Bruce Medal (1994)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (2001)
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1981[1]
- The 11758 Sargentis named in his honor
Personal life
Sargent was married to fellow Caltech astronomer
References
- ^ S2CID 86025150.
- ^ a b c d "Wallace Sargent's Homepage". Caltech. Archived from the original on 2015-04-28.
- ^ a b c Wallace L. W. Sargent at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- S2CID 71566659.
- ^ "Caltech Mourns the Passing of Wallace L. W. Sargent". Caltech.edu. 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
- ^ "Wallace L.W. Sargent dies at 77; Caltech astrophysicist". Los Angeles Times. 10 November 2012.
- ISSN 1538-3873.
- doi:10.1086/156077.
- ^ "List of Sargent's PhD Students". astro.caltech.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-07-09.
- ^ "Wallace Sargent". NNDB.com. Retrieved 17 July 2012.