Marshal H. Wrubel

Marshal H. Wrubel (born March 31, 1924 in New York City , † October 26, 1968 in Boulder , Colorado ) was an American astronomer .

Wrubel was considered a child prodigy at the piano and studied at the Juilliard School in Manhattan from the age of eleven . He graduated from Juilliard with a degree in piano and in 1944 a bachelor's degree in physics from City College of New York . He then spent two years in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory , where he decided to turn to astrophysics. From 1946 he studied at the University of Chicago with a doctorate in 1949. As a post-doctoral student , he was a Fellow of the National Research Council at Princeton University . In 1950 he became an assistant professor and in 1966 professor of astronomy at Indiana University Bloomington . He headed the Astrophysics department and was head of the data center between 1955 and 1958, which was named after him in 1973. In 1968 he was on a sabbatical at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder , where he died of a heart attack at the age of 44 on a mountain hike.

He served on the National Science Foundation's Astronomy Committee and a Councilor of the American Astronomical Society .

Wrubel dealt with the astrophysics of star structure, stellar atmospheres and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. The asteroid (1765) Wrubel is named after him.

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Stellar interiors , Handbook of Physics , Volume 51, 1958
Primer of programming for digital computers , McGraw Hill 1959
Published by: Proceedings of the National Science Foundation conference on stellar atmospheres, held at Indiana University, September / October 1954 , 1955

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SURNAME	Wrubel, Marshal H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1968
Place of death	near Boulder , Colorado