Wallace L. W. Sargent
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| Born | Wallace Leslie William Sargent February 15, 1935 |
| Died | October 29, 2012 (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of Manchester (BSc, PhD) |
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| Awards | FRS (1981) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Some Problems in Cosmical Gas Dynamics (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | Franz Daniel Kahn |
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| Website | www |
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.