Wallace L. W. Sargent

Wal Sargent
Born
Wallace Leslie William Sargent

(1935-02-15)February 15, 1935
Elsham, Lincolnshire, England
DiedOctober 29, 2012(2012-10-29) (aged 77)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Manchester (BSc, PhD)
Spouse
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(m. 1964)​
AwardsFRS (1981)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology[2]
ThesisSome Problems in Cosmical Gas Dynamics (1959)
Doctoral advisorFranz Daniel Kahn[3][4]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.astro.caltech.edu/~wws

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]

  1. ^ a b Lynden-Bell, Donald (2015). "Wallace Leslie William Sargent. 15 February 1935 — 29 October 2012". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 61. London: Royal Society: 467–483. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0018. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 86025150.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference wws was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Wallace L. W. Sargent at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Dyson, James E.; Lynden Bell, Donald (1999). "Franz Daniel Kahn. 13 May 1926 -- 8 February 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 45: 255–267. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0017. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 71566659.
  5. ^ "Caltech Mourns the Passing of Wallace L. W. Sargent". Caltech.edu. 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2012-10-31.