Allan Sandage
Astronomer
1926 – 2010
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Who was Allan Sandage?
Allan Rex Sandage was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He is best known for determining the first reasonably accurate value for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe. He is also the discoverer of the first quasar.
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- Born
- Jun 18, 1926
Iowa City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Miami University
- Lived in
- California
- Died
- Nov 13, 2010
San Gabriel
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on July 23, 2013
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