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George B. Field | |
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 George B. Field in 1987 | |
| Born | October 25, 1929 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | July 31, 2024 (aged 94) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | MIT (B.S., Physics) Princeton University (Ph.D.)[1] |
| Occupation(s) | astrophysicist; professor; institution director |
| Known for | theoretical astrophysics; advances in understanding the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM); founding director of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Princeton; University of California, Berkeley; Harvard; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Doctoral advisor | Lyman Spitzer |
| Doctoral students | Susan Ames, Eric G. Blackman, Sean M. Carroll, Carl E. Heiles, Richard Conn Henry, Chun Ming Leung, Phyllis M. Lugger, Christopher McKee, Péter Mészáros, Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias, William C. Saslaw, Paul R. Shapiro, Ira M. Wasserman |
George B. Field (October 25, 1929 – July 31, 2024) was an American astrophysicist.