Background
Sandage, Allan Rex was born on June 18, 1926 in Iowa City. Son of Charles Harold and Dorothy (Briggs) Sandage.
Sandage, Allan Rex was born on June 18, 1926 in Iowa City. Son of Charles Harold and Dorothy (Briggs) Sandage.
Bachelor of Arts Illinois, 1948. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Illinois, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1953.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1966. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1967. Doctor of Science (honorary), Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1974.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Graceland College, Iowa, 1985. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Southern California, 1971. Doctor (honorary), University Chile, 1992.
Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, Palomar Observatory, Carnegie Institution, Washington, since 1952;
Peyton postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University, 1952;
assistant astronomer, Hale Observatory, Pasadena, California, 1952-1956;
astronomer, Observatory Carnegie Institution, Pasadena, California, since 1956;
senior research astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Baltimore, since 1986;
Homewood Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1987-1989. Visiting lecturer Harvard University, 1957. Member astronomical expedition to South Africa, 1958.
Consultant National Science Foundation, 1961-1964. Sigma Xi national lecturer, 1966. Visiting professor Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National U., 1968-1969.
Visiting research astronomer U. Basel, 1985, 92, visiting professor, 1994. Visiting research astronomer University of California, San Diego, 1985-1986. Visiting astronomer U. Hawaii, 1986.
Lindsey lecturer National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, 1989. Jansky lecturer National Radio Astronomical Observatory, 1991. Grubb-Parsons lecturer U. Durham, England, 1992.
With United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1945. Member Lincei National Academy (Rome), American Astronomical Society (Helen Warner prize 1960, Russell prize 1973), Royal Astronomical Society (Eddington medal 1963, Gold medal 1967), Astronomical Society Pacific (Gold medal 1975), Royal Astronomical Society Canada, Franklin Institute (Elliott Cresson medal 1973), American Philos.Soc., Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Mary Lois Connelley, June 8, 1959. Children: David Allan, John Howard.