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Dec 1, 2012 · Allan Sandage was an observational astronomer who was happiest at a telescope. On the sudden death of Edwin Hubble, Sandage inherited the programmes using the world’s largest optical telescope at Palomar to determine the distances and number counts of galaxies.
Jun 1, 2011 · Allan Rex Sandage. Allan Rex Sandage, who died of pancreatic cancer on 13 November 2010 in San Gabriel, California, was one of the greatest astronomers of the 20th century. He gave the first reliable size of the universe—seven times larger than the estimate by his mentor, Edwin Hubble—and the first reliable age of the universe.
Allan Rex SandageAstronomer Allan Rex Sandage (born 1926) took it as his life's work to find out how old and how large the universe is. His work led him to conclude the universe is 15 billion to 20 billion years old. Sandage is credited with the discovery of quasars, small blue cosmic objects that may be places where stars are born.
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Sandage was elected to the National Acad-emy of Sciences in 1963 but resigned when the Academy failed to elect Olin Eggen. Eggen, Sandage, and I had collaborated on a seminal paper about the formation of the gal-axy. This paper gave birth to galactic archaeol-ogy, in which the ages, chemical constitutions,
Allan sometimes called himself a curmudgeon. But in his social life he was ... Switzerland, and was a co-author of Allan Sandage for almost 50 years. e-mail: g-a.tammann@unibas.ch ESTATE OF F ...
Nov 16, 2010 · Allan Sandage, one of the greatest astronomers of the twentieth century, has died at the age of 84. Sandage, who worked with Edwin Hubble as an assistant at Mount Wilson Observatory, played an integral part in increasing our understanding of the scale of the Universe and determining the Hubble Constant, which describes the Universe’s expansion.
