Back آلن سانديغ Arabic Allan Rex Sandage Catalan ئالان ساندەج CKB Allan Rex Sandage Czech Allan Rex Sandage German Άλαν Σάντατζ Greek Allan Sandage Esperanto Allan Rex Sandage Spanish Allan Sandage Finnish Allan Sandage French
Allan Sandage | |
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| Born | June 18, 1926 |
| Died | November 13, 2010 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology University of Illinois |
| Known for | Physical cosmology |
| Awards | Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1957) Eddington Medal (1963) Rittenhouse Medal (1968) National Medal of Science (1970) Elliott Cresson Medal (1973) Bruce Medal (1975) Crafoord Prize (1991) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | astronomy |
| Institutions | Carnegie Observatories |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Baade |
Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California.[2] He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.
| (96155) 1973 HA | 27 April 1973 |
- ^ Lynden-Bell, Donald; Schweizer, François (2012). "Allan Rex Sandage. 18 June 1926 -- 13 November 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 58: 245–264. arXiv:1111.5646. Bibcode:2012BMFRL..58..245L. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0021. S2CID 72680092.
- ^ "Carnegie Observatories-Pasadena". Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2009-12-04.