Allan Sandage
American astronomer (1926-2010) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 84
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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2010Died13 November 20102001Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward2000Gruber Prize in CosmologyAward1993Tomalla FoundationAward1991Crafoord Prize in AstronomyAwardKarl G. Jansky LectureshipAward1975Bruce MedalAward1973Elliott Cresson MedalAward1972Henry Norris Russell LectureshipAward1970National Medal of ScienceAward1967Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical SocietyAward1963Eddington MedalAward1957Helen B. Warner Prize for AstronomyAward1926Born18 June 1926
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Lived 1926 to 2010 · aged 84
The same award as Allan
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Both received Tomalla Foundation
Alan GuthBoth received Eddington Medal
Lyman SpitzerBoth received Crafoord Prize in Astronomy
Andrei LindeBoth received Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Geoffrey BurbidgeBoth received Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
Walter Sydney AdamsBoth received Bruce Medal