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Categories: 20th-century American physicists, Scientists from Detroit, American astronomers, 1997 deaths, 1919 births
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Robert B. Leighton  R. B. Leighton  Robert Benjamin Leighton
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Robert Benjamin Leighton was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology. Wikipedia
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physicist
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Robert Benjamin Leighton was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology. Wikipedia
American physicist Wikipedia Disambiguation
American astronomer Wikidata
IS A
homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
doctor's degree
AWARD RECEIVED
James Craig Watson Medal
Rumford Prize
Richtmyer Memorial Award
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Paul Sophus Epstein
EDUCATED AT
California Institute of Technology
EMPLOYER
California Institute of Technology
FAMILY NAME
Leighton
GIVEN NAME
Robert
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
American Physical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Astronomical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
OCCUPATION
astronomer
physicist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Detroit
PLACE OF DEATH
Pasadena
SEX OR GENDER
male
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Robert B. Leighton
Wikidata
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Robert B. Leighton
Wikipedia Redirections
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R. B. Leighton, Robert B. Leighton (physicist)
Wikidata Alias
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Robert Benjamin Leighton

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