Samuel Tolansky
Samuel Tolansky | |
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| Born | Samuel Turlausky 17 November 1906 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
| Died | 4 March 1973 (aged 66) |
| Alma mater | Durham University Armstrong College |
| Known for | Optics, Interferometry, testing material from Apollo 11 |
| Awards | C. V. Boys Prize Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Manchester Royal Holloway College University of London |
| Doctoral advisor | William Lawrence Bragg |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Joseph Bradley |
Samuel Tolansky, born Turlausky, FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS (17 November 1906 – 4 March 1973), was a British physicist. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the Moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program.