Add to ORKGRobert Benjamin Leighton, a longtime physicist and astronomer at Caltech, died in Pasadena on 9 March 1997 of a neurological disease. Bob was born in Detroit on 10 September 1919 and received his physics undergraduate (BS, 1941) and graduate (MS, 1944; PhD, 1947) degrees from Caltech. He stayed at Caltech his entire professional career, serving as division chair of physics, mathematics and astronomy from 1970 to 1975 and retiring as the Valentine Professor of Physics in 1985
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Robert Benjamin Leighton, a longtime physicist and astronomer at Caltech, died in Pasadena on 9 Ma...
An interview in seven sessions in October and November 1986 and January and February 1987 with Rober...
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In this excerpt from his oral history, the late professor of physics glissandoes down the spectrum f...
Robert V. Langmuir, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Caltech and a member of the team...
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National Academy of Sciences; Melvin David Brockle; Honors and Awards; Goldstone Dedication; New Dev...
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER died in Princeton, New Jersey on February 18, 1967, at the age of sixty-two. He w...
Lasker Award; Obituaries; Astronomy Gift; Teaching Awards; 6.1 Earthquake Shakes Up Campu
The 1993 Leonard Medalist, Robert M. Walker, started his professional career during the 1950s, as a...
Gerry Neugebauer was one of a small band of experimental physicists who used their perspectives to ...
Quirky tales of 20th-century physics greats, as remembered by a former Caltech postdoc who went on t...
Edwin Ernest Salpeter, among the most influential, prescient, and innovative astrophysicists of the ...
Robert Benjamin Leighton, a longtime physicist and astronomer at Caltech, died in Pasadena on 9 Ma...
An interview in seven sessions in October and November 1986 and January and February 1987 with Rober...
John Beverley Oke, emeritus professor of astronomy at Caltech, died on 2 March 2004 of heart failure...
Robert Phillip Sharp, one of the leading figures of American geology, died peacefully in his home ...
In this excerpt from his oral history, the late professor of physics glissandoes down the spectrum f...
Robert V. Langmuir, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Caltech and a member of the team...
Edwin P. Hubble 1889-1953; Sir Lawrence Bragg; William N. Birchby 1877-1953; Faculty Changes; Pure C...
Arnold M. Karo died on 16 June 1991 at age 63, after a yearlong battle with leukemia. He was a theor...
National Academy of Sciences; Melvin David Brockle; Honors and Awards; Goldstone Dedication; New Dev...
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER died in Princeton, New Jersey on February 18, 1967, at the age of sixty-two. He w...
Lasker Award; Obituaries; Astronomy Gift; Teaching Awards; 6.1 Earthquake Shakes Up Campu
The 1993 Leonard Medalist, Robert M. Walker, started his professional career during the 1950s, as a...
Gerry Neugebauer was one of a small band of experimental physicists who used their perspectives to ...
Quirky tales of 20th-century physics greats, as remembered by a former Caltech postdoc who went on t...
Edwin Ernest Salpeter, among the most influential, prescient, and innovative astrophysicists of the ...