| Allan R. Sandage AKA Allan Rex Sandage Born: 18-Jun-1926
Birthplace: Iowa City, IA
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars Military service: US Navy (WWII) Astronomer Allan R. Sandage was initially hired as Edwin Hubble's assistant at Mount Wilson Observatory, and assumed much of his workload after Hubble's death, and discovered the first quasi-stellar radio source (quasar). He studied the deceleration parameter, the extragalactic distance scale, galaxies, the Hubble constant, stellar evolution, and the age of the universe (15 billion to 20 billion years, according to his calculations). Sandage later found that many ultraviolet objects are not radio emitters but can be still correctly classified as quasars because of their characteristic immense red shift. Hubble-Sandage variable stars are named for Sandage and his mentor. Wife: Mary Lois Sandage (two sons)
Son: David Sandage
Son: John Sandage
University: University of Miami Florida (attended)
University: BS Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1948)
University: PhD Physics, California Institute of Technology (1953)
Scholar: Mt. Wilson Observatory (1948-52)
Professor: Physics, Johns Hopkins University (1987-88)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology 2000
Crafoord Prize 1991
Bruce Medal 1975
National Medal of Science 1971
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1967
Eddington Medal 1963
American Astronomical Society
Carnegie Institution of Washington Carnegie Observatories (1913-61)
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Society Foreign Member
Science Debate 2008
Asteroid Namesake 9963 Sandage
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (1961)
Galaxies and the Universe (1975, with Mary Sandage and Jerome Kristian)
The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies (1994)
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