1. Allan Sandage was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California.
14 Facts About Allan Sandage
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Allan Sandage determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.
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Allan Sandage was born in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
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Allan Sandage graduated from the University of Illinois in 1948.
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Allan Sandage continued Hubble's research program after Hubble died in 1953.
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At the time, many, especially Allan Sandage, believed that the cosmological constant was zero.
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Allan Sandage performed photometric studies of globular clusters, and calculated their age to be at least 25 billion years.
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Allan Sandage published two atlases of galaxies, in 1961 and 1981, based on the Hubble classification scheme.
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In 1962 Allan Sandage studied the possibility of directly measuring the temporal variation of the redshift of extra-galactic sources.
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Allan Sandage discovered jets erupting from the core of the so-called Cigar Galaxy.
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Allan Sandage was a prolific researcher; during his career he published more than 500 papers.
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In 1959, Allan Sandage married Mary Connelley, an astronomer, with whom he had two sons, David and John.
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In 1983 Allan Sandage announced he had become a Christian and began to write essays on the subject of religion and science.
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On November 13,2010, Allan Sandage died of pancreatic cancer at his home in San Gabriel, California.