Observational cosmologist Allan Sandage has passed away. In memory of his brilliant career our history photo of the week is 1950s photo of Dr. Sandage in front of the 200-inch Hale Telescope.
You can read summaries of his impressive career from Carnegie Observatories, Nature, Astronomy Now, and Sky & Telescope.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Last month, Astrophysics has lost three great men;
Brian MARSDEN ( 1937-2010 )
Allan SANDAGE ( 1926-2010 )
Naum KAIDANOVSKY ( 1907-2010 )
the NYT did an excellent piece here
http://articles.nytimes.com/1999/07/25/magazine/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-cosmologist.html
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