Wallace Sargent
Wallace Leslie William Sargent (born February 15, 1935 in Elsham , Lincolnshire , † October 29, 2012 ) was an American astronomer of British origin.
Sargent studied at the University of Manchester , where he received his doctorate in 1959. After stays at the California Institute of Technology , the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the University of California, San Diego , Sargent became assistant professor in 1966 and professor at the California Institute of Technology in 1971. From 1997 to 2000 he headed the Mount Palomar Observatory .
Sargent studied stars and galaxies mainly with methods of spectroscopy. Among other things, he is known for his studies of absorption lines in the spectra of quasars , which enable conclusions to be drawn about intergalactic matter and galaxies between the earth and the quasar.
Sargent was married to the astronomer Anneila Sargent .
Honors
- 1968 Sloan Research Fellowship
- 1969 Helen B. Warner Prize
- 1977 election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1991 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
- 1994 Bruce Medal
- 2001 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- 2005 elected member of the National Academy of Sciences
The asteroid (11758) Sargent is named after him
Individual evidence
- ^ Caltech Mourns the Passing of Wallace LW Sargent. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 29, 2012 ; accessed on October 31, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Sargent, Wallace |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sargent, Wallace Leslie William (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Elsham (UK) |
DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 2012 |