Jastrow, Robert (1925–2008)
Distinguished American space scientist. Jastrow earned a Ph.D. in theoretical
physics from Columbia in 1948 and carried out further research at the Institute
for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and the University of California, Berkeley,
before becoming an assistant professor at Yale (1953–54). He then
served on the staff at the Naval Research Laboratory (1954–58) before
being appointed chief of the theoretical division of the Goddard
Space Flight Center, and then director of the Goddard
Institute of Space Studies in 1961, a post he held for 20 years. Subsequently
he was appointed professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth. Jastrow's work
has ranged across nuclear physics, plasma physics, geophysics, and the physics
of the Moon and terrestrial planets.
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