Allan Sandage
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 14 years ago |
| Date of birth | June 18,1926 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Iowa City |
| Iowa | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | November 13,2010 |
| Died | San Gabriel |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Discovered | (96155) 1973 HA |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Education | Miami University |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| California Institute of Technology | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | |
| Books | Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 1, The Mount Wilson Observatory: Breaking the Code of Cosmic Evolution |
| Atlas of Galaxies: Useful for Measuring the Cosmological Distance Scale | |
| A Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies: Containing Data on Magnitudes, Types, and Redshifts for Galaxies in the Original Harvard Survey, U | |
| Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: The Mount Wilson Observatory | |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Bruce Medal | |
| National Medal of Science for Physical Science | |
| Gruber Prize in Cosmology | |
| Eddington Medal | |
| Elliott Cresson Medal | |
| Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy | |
| Rittenhouse Medal | |
| Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Mathematics | |
| Current partner | Mary Sandage |
| Known for | Physical cosmology |
| Spouse | Mary Sandage |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 547278 |
Allan Sandage Life story
Allan Rex Sandage was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.
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