Wallace L. W. Sargent

Wal Sargent
Born
Wallace Leslie William Sargent

(1935-02-15)February 15, 1935
DiedOctober 29, 2012(2012-10-29) (aged 77)
EducationUniversity of Manchester (BSc, PhD)
Spouse
(m. 1964)
AwardsFRS (1981)
Scientific career
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
ThesisSome Problems in Cosmical Gas Dynamics (1959)
Doctoral advisorFranz Daniel Kahn
Doctoral students
Websitewww.astro.caltech.edu/~wws

Wallace Leslie William Sargent FRS (February 15, 1935  October 29, 2012) was a British-born American astronomer and the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.