Lyman Spitzer
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 28 years ago |
| Date of birth | June 26,1914 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Toledo |
| Ohio | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | March 31,1997 |
| Died | Princeton |
| New Jersey | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Doreen Canaday |
| Job | Physicist |
| Astronomer | |
| Mountaineer | |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Yale University | |
| Phillips Academy | |
| Phillips Academy — Andover | |
| Scott High School | |
| Scott High Schoo | |
| Books | Dreams, stars, and electrons |
| Dynamical evolution of globular clusters | |
| Searching between the stars | |
| Physical processes in the interstellar medium | |
| Diffuse matter in space | |
| Physics of fully ionized gases | |
| Awards | Bruce Medal |
| Franklin Medal | |
| Henry Draper Medal | |
| National Medal of Science for Physical Science | |
| Karl Schwarzschild Medal | |
| Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Mathematics | |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| Known for | star formation |
| Children | Nicholas Spitzer |
| Notable student | Trinh Xuan Thuan |
| J. Richard Gott | |
| George B. Field | |
| Bruce Elmegreen | |
| Robert H. Sanders | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 569834 |
Lyman Spitzer Life story
Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space.
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