About William Ward
Lived 1944 – 2018 (aged 74). William Ward was an American astronomer and researcher.
William Roger Ward (January 11, 1944 – September 20, 2018) was an American astronomer.
Born in Kansas City, Kansas, Ward studied mathematics and physics at University of Missouri, and completed a doctoral degree at California Institute of Technology in 1972. He became an astronomy theoretician, studying how planetary systems formed and evolved. His career began at the Harvard's Center for Astrophysics, then he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977. In 1998 he joined the Southwest Research Institute branch located in Boulder, Colorado. He retired in 2014. Ward died of a brain tumor in Prescott, Arizona on September 20, 2018.
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American astronomer
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William Ward was born on 11 January 1944 in Kansas City.
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William Ward died on 20 September 2018 in Prescott.
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William Ward was an astronomer and researcher.
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