Allan R. Sandage AKA Allan Rex Sandage Born: 18-Jun-1926 Birthplace: Iowa City, IA Died: 13-Nov-2010 Location of death: San Gabriel, CA Cause of death: Cancer - Pancreatic
Gender: Male Religion: Christian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars Military service: US Navy (WWII) Astronomer Allan R. Sandage was initially hired as Edwin Hubble's assistant at Mount Wilson Observatory, and assumed much of his workload after Hubble's death, and discovered the first quasi-stellar radio source (quasar). He studied the deceleration parameter, the extragalactic distance scale, galaxies, the Hubble constant, stellar evolution, and the age of the universe (15 billion to 20 billion years, according to his calculations). Sandage later found that many ultraviolet objects are not radio emitters but can be still correctly classified as quasars because of their characteristic immense red shift. Hubble-Sandage variable stars are named for Sandage and his mentor. Wife: Mary Lois Sandage (two sons) Son: David Sandage Son: John Sandage
University: University of Miami Florida (attended) University: BS Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1948) University: PhD Physics, California Institute of Technology (1953) Scholar: Mt. Wilson Observatory (1948-52) Professor: Physics, Johns Hopkins University (1987-88)
Eddington Medal 1963 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1967 (with Hannes Alfvén) National Medal of Science 1971 Bruce Medal 1975 Crafoord Prize 1991 Gruber Prize in Cosmology 2000 American Astronomical Society Carnegie Institution for Science Carnegie Observatories (1913-61) Pontifical Academy of Sciences Royal Society Foreign Member Science Debate 2008 Asteroid Namesake 9963 Sandage Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (1961) Galaxies and the Universe (1975, with Mary Sandage and Jerome Kristian) The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies (1994)
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