SANDAGE, Allan R(ex)

SANDAGE, Allan R(ex). American, b. 1926. Genres: Astronomy. Career: Astronomer. Hale Observatories (Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory), assistant astronomer, 1952-56, astronomer, 1956-; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Peyton Postdoctoral fellow, 1952; Cambridge University, fellow, 1957; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, visiting lecturer and fellow, 1957; Haverford University, fellow, 1958 and 1966; University of South Africa, fellow, 1958; member of expedition to South Africa, 1958; Sigma Xi, national lecturer, 1966; Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, visiting professor, 1968-69; University of Basel, research astronomer, 1985-92, visiting professor, 1994; University of California, San Diego, visiting research astronomer, 1985-86; University of hawaii, visiting astronomer, 1986; Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA, Baltimore, MD, senior research astronomer, 1986-; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Homewood Professor of Physics, 1987-89; Lindsey lecturer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1989; National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Jansky lecturer, 1991; University of Durham, Grubb-Parsons lecturer, 1992. Publications: The Hubble Atlas of the Galaxies, 1961; (ed., with M. Sandage and J. Kristian) Galaxies and the Universe, 1975; (with G.A. Tammann) A Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue of the Bright Galaxies, 1981, 2nd ed, 1987; (with J. Bedke) Atlas of Galaxies: Useful for Measuring the Cosmological Distance Scale, 1988, as The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies, 1994; (with R.G. Kron and M.S. Longair) The Deep Universe, 1995. Contributor to journals and periodicals. Address: 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101-1232, U.S.A.