Robert B. Leighton
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American astronomer (1919–1997)
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Robert B. Leighton appears in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection — one of 9,861 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 83 inbound references to Robert B. Leighton, and connects out to infrared astronomy, Mariner 6 and 7 and Gerald Neugebauer.
It is catalogued under topics including 1919 births, 1997 deaths and 20th-century American physicists.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 30
Top works
- Six Easy Pieces
- Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
- Feynman-Vorlesungen über Physik. 3 Bände im Schuber
- 파인만의물리학강의
- Mariner Mars 1964 Project report
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Quotes
- “The way I solved the theoretical problem was to go into the shop and build something concrete.”
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- date of birth
- 1919-09-10
- date of death
- 1997-03-09
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- Robert B. Leighton
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