Gordon Pettengill
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 3 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 10,1926 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Providence |
| Rhode Island | |
| United States | |
| Notable students | Steven J. Ostro |
| Stewart Nozette | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Astronomer | |
| Died | Concord |
| Massachusetts | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | May 8,2021 |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Magellanic Premium | |
| Whipple Award | |
| Charles A. Whitten Medal | |
| Thesi | Measurements on Proton-Proton Scattering in the Energy Region 150 to 340 MEV (1954) |
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| ID | 545178 |
Gordon Pettengill Life story
Gordon Hemenway Pettengill was an American radio astronomer and planetary physicist. He was one of the first to take radar from its original military application to its use as a tool for astronomy. He was professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
