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Jastrow, Robert was born on September 7, 1925 in New York City. Son of Abraham and Marie (Greenfield) Jastrow.
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Jastrow, Robert was born on September 7, 1925 in New York City. Son of Abraham and Marie (Greenfield) Jastrow.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1944; Master of Arts, Columbia, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1948; post-doctoral fellow, Leiden U., 1948-1949; post-doctoral fellow, Princeton Institute Advanced Study, 1949-1950, 53; post-doctoral fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1950-1953; Honorary Doctor of Science, Manhattan College, 1980; Honorary Doctor of Science, New Jersey Institute Technology, 1987.
Assistant professor, Yale, 1953-1954; consultant nuclear physics, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, 1958-1962; head theoretical division, Goddard Space Flight Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1958-1961; chairman lunar exploration committee, Goddard Space Flight Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959-1960; member committee, Goddard Space Flight Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960-1962; director, Goddard Institute Space Studies, New York City, 1961-1981; Adjunct Professor geology, Columbia, 1961-1981; director Summer Institute Space Physics, Columbia, 1962-1970; Adjunct Professor astronomy, Columbia (Summer Institute Space Physics), 1977-1982; Adjunct Professor earth science, Dartmouth, 1973-1992; president, G.C. Marshall Institute, since 1985; director, chairman of board, Mount Wilson Institute, since 1991.
(Robert Jastrow discusses the past and future of space exp...)
(The greatest of all dramas - the scientific story of the ...)
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(This is the 2nd printing version, from 1969. Other than s...)
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(man's descent from the stars)
( "A masterpiece of science."—Werner von Braun. )
( "A masterpiece of science."—Werner von Braun. )
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Fellow American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society. Member International Academy Astronautics, Council Foreign Relations, Leakey Foundation, National Space Society (Board of Governors).