Gordon Pettengill
American radio astronomer and planetary physicist (1926–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gordon Hemenway Pettengill (February 10, 1926 – May 8, 2021) was an American radio astronomer and planetary physicist. He was one of the first to take radar from its original military application to its use as a tool for astronomy. He was professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Born | Gordon H. Pettengill (1926-02-10)February 10, 1926 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Died | May 8, 2021(2021-05-08) (aged 95)[1] Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1980) Magellanic Premium (1994) Whipple Award (1995) Charles A. Whitten Medal (1997) |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Measurements on Proton-Proton Scattering in the Energy Region 150 to 340 MEV (1954) |
Doctoral students | Steven J. Ostro Stewart Nozette |
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