{"id":9467,"date":"2012-10-30T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T22:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2012-10-30T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T22:48:02","slug":"wal-sargent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/wal-sargent\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal Sargent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu\/brucemedalists\/sargent\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2012\/10\/sargent.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9003\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m very sad to report that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallace_L._W._Sargent\">Wallace Sargent<\/a>, a distinguished astronomer at Caltech, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/content\/caltech-mourns-passing-wallace-sargent\">died yesterday<\/a>. Wal, as he was known, was a world leader in spectroscopy and extragalactic astronomy, with a specialty in studies of quasar absorption lines. He played a crucial role in numerous major projects in astronomy, including serving as the director of the Palomar Observatory. He was awarded numerous major awards, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu\/brucemedalists\/sargent\/index.html\">Bruce Medal<\/a>, the Helen B. Warner Prize, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>A glance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.caltech.edu\/~wws\/\">Wal&#8217;s home page<\/a> will quickly reveal that he led an active an extraordinarily productive life. Those who knew him, however, will remember a warm and enthusiastic personality who was always happy to talk. He mentored numerous students, and contributed greatly to the spirit of Caltech&#8217;s fantastically successful astronomy program. Our thoughts to out to his wife <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anneila_Sargent\">Anneila<\/a> (also a distinguished Caltech astronomer) and all his friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very sad to report that Wallace Sargent, a distinguished astronomer at Caltech, died yesterday. Wal, as he was known, was a world leader in spectroscopy and extragalactic astronomy, with a specialty in studies of quasar absorption lines. He played a crucial role in numerous major projects in astronomy, including serving as the director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","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=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}