Lyman Spitzer Jr.

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American scientist astronomer astrophysicist human physicist

Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American scientist → astronomer → astrophysicist → human → physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in astrophysics →
awardReceived	Bruce Medal → Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society → Henry Norris Russell Lectureship → National Medal of Science →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1914-06-26 →
dateOfDeath	1997-03-31 →
doctoralAdvisorOf	Jeremiah P. Ostriker → John N. Bahcall →
educatedAt	Princeton University → Yale University →
employer	Princeton University →
familyName	Spitzer →
fieldOfWork	astrophysics → interstellar medium → plasma physics → space astronomy →
genre	scientific literature →
givenName	Lyman →
hasNamesake	Lyman Spitzer Building at Princeton University → Lyman Spitzer Jr. Fellowship (Princeton) → Spitzer Space Telescope →
hasWritten	Diffuse Matter in Space → Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium →
inspired	Hubble Space Telescope →
knownFor	advocacy of space telescopes → theory of interstellar matter → work on controlled thermonuclear fusion →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Astronomical Society → National Academy of Sciences →
notableWork	conception of space-based astronomical telescopes → development of stellarator fusion device concept → early advocacy for the Hubble Space Telescope → pioneering studies of the interstellar medium →
placeOfBirth	Toledo, Ohio, United States →
placeOfDeath	Princeton, New Jersey, United States →
positionHeld	director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory → director of Princeton University Observatory → professor of astrophysics at Princeton University →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Princeton, New Jersey, United States →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Spitzer Space Telescope →	namesake
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship →	notableRecipient
Spitzer Space Telescope →	renamedAfter