{"id":9034,"date":"2005-08-18T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/08\/18\/john-bahcall\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T16:03:34","slug":"john-bahcall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/18\/john-bahcall\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bahcall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sns.ias.edu\/~jnb\/\">John Bahcall<\/a> passed away on Tuesday.  Here is an email from the Institute for Advanced Study.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From: Peter Goddard<br \/>\nSubject: Sad news<\/p>\n<p>To the Institute Community,<\/p>\n<p>It is with regret that I share the sad news of the passing yesterday  evening of Professor John Bahcall.<\/p>\n<p>John was the Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and had been with the Institute since 1968, when he arrived here as a Member.  He was appointed to the Faculty in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you are familiar with John and his distinguished career, which is marked by work on models of the Galaxy, dark matter, atomic and nuclear physics applied to astronomical systems, stellar evolution, and quasar emission and absorption lines.  John was an expert on the elusive form of radiation known as neutrinos, and was involved for many years with NASA&#8217;s Hubble Telescope Working Group.<\/p>\n<p>John was truly a pioneer, who made lasting contributions to the field of astrophysics.  He will be greatly missed, and we extend our deep sympathy  to his wife Dr. Neta Bahcall and their children Safi, Dan and Orli.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Goddard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bahcall was known primarily, of course, for his work on the solar neutrino problem.  He was the theorist who calculated the expected number of neutrinos that the Sun should be emitting; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencewatch.com\/interviews\/john-n-bahcall.htm\">worked very closely<\/a> with Ray Davis, the experimenter who first demonstrated a deficit of solar neutrinos reaching the earth.  Davis was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/physics\/laureates\/2002\/index.html\">Nobel Prize<\/a> in 2002, and many people (myself included) were very surprised that Bahcall didn&#8217;t share the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to hear that John Bahcall passed away on Tuesday. Here is an email from the Institute for Advanced Study. From: Peter Goddard Subject: Sad news To the Institute Community, It is with regret that I share the sad news of the passing yesterday evening of Professor John Bahcall. John was the Richard Black Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}