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Gordon Pettengill | |
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| Born | Gordon H. Pettengill February 10, 1926 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | May 8, 2021 (aged 95)[1] Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1980) Magellanic Premium (1994) Whipple Award (1995) Charles A. Whitten Medal (1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Measurements on Proton-Proton Scattering in the Energy Region 150 to 340 MEV (1954) |
| Doctoral students | Steven J. Ostro Stewart Nozette |
Gordon Hemenway Pettengill (February 10, 1926 – May 8, 2021) was an American radio astronomer and planetary physicist. He was one of the first to take radar from its original military application to its use as a tool for astronomy. He was professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.