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Edwin Ernest Salpeter
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Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist (1924–2008)
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Edwin Ernest Salpeter was an Austrian, American, and Australian astronomer, astrophysicist, physicist, and university teacher. He worked at Cornell University and the University of Innsbruck. His professional fields included physics and astrophysics. He was educated at the University of Birmingham, where his doctoral advisor was Rudolf Peierls. Salpeter spoke English.
He was a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Australian Academy of Science. His awards included the Hans A. Bethe Prize, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Karl Schwarzschild Medal. He was recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Salpeter was born on December 3, 1924, and died on November 26, 2008, in Ithaca. His manner of death was natural causes, specifically leukemia. He is buried in Berlin. His doctoral students included Hubert Reeves, David J. Stevenson, Lars Bildsten, and Bruce T. Draine.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edwin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- United States
- Place of death
- Ithaca
- Occupation
- nuclear physicist
- Employer
- University of Innsbruck
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Rudolf Peierls
- Doctoral student
- Bruce T. Draine
- Field of work
- astrophysics
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- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- date of birth
- 1924-12-03
- date of death
- 2008-11-25
- cause of death
- leukemia
- Erdős number
- 5
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Berlin
- P8168
- Dagonville
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