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Wallace L. W. Sargent

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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.
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Sargent, W. L. W.; Young, P. J.; Lynds, C. R.; Boksenberg, A.; Shortridge, K; Hartwick, F. D. A. (1978).
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from 1964 until his death. Although he became a U.S. citizen, he was born in
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He supervised the theses of a number of students while at Caltech, including
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Sargent carried out research in many areas of astronomy including
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in 1956, and his Ph.D. in 1959 from the same institution.
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Wallace Sargent

Elsham, Lincolnshire
England
Los Angeles
California
University of Manchester
Anneila Sargent
FRS
California Institute of Technology
Thesis
Some Problems in Cosmical Gas Dynamics
Doctoral advisor
Franz Daniel Kahn
Alex Filippenko
John Huchra
Charles C. Steidel
www.astro.caltech.edu/~wws
FRS
astronomer
Ira S. Bowen
California Institute of Technology
Elsham, North Lincolnshire
Winterton, Lincolnshire
Scunthorpe Technical High School
University of Manchester
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Anneila Sargent
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galaxies

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