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Wallace Leslie William Sargent FRS[1] (February 15, 1935 – October 29, 2012) was a British-born American astronomer[5] and the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.[2]

Wal Sargent
Born	Wallace Leslie William Sargent (1935-02-15)February 15, 1935 Elsham, North Lincolnshire, England
Died	October 29, 2012(2012-10-29) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	University of Manchester (BSc, PhD)
Spouse	Anneila Sargent ​ (m. 1964)​
Awards	FRS (1981)[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	California Institute of Technology[2]
Thesis	Some Problems in Cosmical Gas Dynamics (1959)
Doctoral advisor	Franz Daniel Kahn[3][4]
Doctoral students	Alex Filippenko[citation needed] John Huchra[3] Charles C. Steidel[citation needed]
Website	www.astro.caltech.edu/~wws

Education

Sargent was born in Elsham, North Lincolnshire, the son of a gardener and a housecleaner, and grew up in Winterton, Lincolnshire.[6] Sargent was the first person in his family to attend high school, and the first student from his high school to ever attend college.[7] He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Manchester in 1956, and his Ph.D. in 1959 from the same institution.[1]

Career and research

Sargent spent the majority of his career at California Institute of Technology (Caltech),[2] excepting an absence of four years during which he claims to have had to go back to England to find himself a wife, Anneila Sargent.

Sargent carried out research in many areas of astronomy including stars, galaxies, quasars and active galactic nuclei, quasar absorption lines, and the intergalactic medium. He pioneered the detection of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei using stellar dynamics, and published the first dynamical measurement of the mass of the black hole in the elliptical galaxy Messier 87.[8]

He supervised the theses of a number of students while at Caltech, including John Huchra,[3] Edwin Turner, Charles C. Steidel, and Alex Filippenko.[9]

He was director of the Palomar Observatory from 1997 to 2000.

Donald Lynden-Bell, Roger Griffin (Astronomer), Neville Woolf, and Wal Sargent were in the film Star Men that documented some of their professional accomplishments at their fiftieth reunion to redo a memorable hike. The film also revealed the personalities of these men.

Awards and honors

• Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1969)
• Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1991)
• Bruce Medal (1994)
• Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (2001)
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1981[1]
• The Asteroid 11758 Sargent is named in his honor

Personal life

Sargent was married to fellow Caltech astronomer Anneila Sargent from 1964 until his death. Although he became a U.S. citizen, he was born in Elsham, England.[2] He was an atheist.[10]

References

На других языках

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[de] Wallace Sargent

Wallace Leslie William Sargent (* 15. Februar 1935 in Elsham, Lincolnshire; † 29. Oktober 2012[1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Astronom britischer Herkunft.

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- [en] Wallace L. W. Sargent

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[es] Wallace L. W. Sargent

Wallace Leslie William Sargent (Elsham, 15 de febrero de 1935 – 29 de octubre de 2012) fue un astrónomo estadounidense de origen británico[1] y Profesor Astronomía en el Instituto de Tecnología de California.[2]

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[it] Wallace Sargent

Wallace Leslie William Sargent, citato a volte come Wal Sargent, (Elsham, 15 febbraio 1935 – Pasadena, 29 ottobre 2012), è stato un astronomo statunitense nato in Inghilterra.

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[ru] Сарджент, Уоллес

Уоллес Лесли Уильям Сарджент (англ. Wallace Leslie William Sargent; 15 февраля 1935 — 29 октября 2012) — американский астроном. Родился в деревне Элшем в округе Северный Линкольншир, Англия.[1] В 1959 году в Манчестерском университете получил степень доктора философии, затем поступил на работу в Калифорнийский технологический институт («Калтех»), которую прервал лишь ради поездки в Англию, где встретил свою будущую жену.

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