Allan Sandage

 

Staff Member Emeritus

A.B. (physics), 1948, University of Illinois; Ph.D. (astronomy), 1953, California Institute of Technology; Sc.D., 1966, Yale University; Sc.D., 1967, University of Illinois; Sc.D., 1967, University of Chicago; LL.D., 1971, University of Southern California; Sc.D., 1974, Miami University; Sc.D., 1985, Graceland College (Iowa); Doctor Honoris Causa, 1992, University of Chile

Extragalactic distance scale; cosmology; stellar populations; stellar evolution; galaxies; age-dating methods for stars and galaxies