About Gerald Neugebauer
Lived 1932 – 2014 (aged 82). Gerald Neugebauer was an American physicist, astronomer and university teacher.
Gerhart Otto "Gerry" Neugebauer He was named California Scientist of the Year for 1986 by the California Museum of Science and Industry, and he was elected to the National Academy of the Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Astronomical Society.
Neugebauer was married to the geophysicist Marcia Neugebauer, a pioneer in solar wind research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the two resided in Tucson, Arizona. He died on 26 September 2014 in Tucson, due to spinocerebellar ataxia.
Prizes 1986 Rumford Prize 1996 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship 1998 Herschel Medal 2010 Bruce Medal
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American astronomer
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Gerald Neugebauer was born on 3 September 1932 in Göttingen.
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Gerald Neugebauer died on 26 September 2014 in Tucson.
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Gerald Neugebauer was a physicist, astronomer and university teacher.
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