Robert Earl Jackson
Robert Earl Jackson (* 1949 ) is an American astronomer who, together with Sandra Moore Faber, discovered the Faber-Jackson relation in 1976 . The Faber-Jackson relation is an experimentally observed relationship between luminosity and velocity dispersion in elliptical galaxies .
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SURNAME | Jackson, Robert Earl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |