Samuel Tolansky
British physicist (1907–1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel Tolansky, born Turlausky,[2] FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS[1][3][4] (17 November 1906 – 4 March 1973),[5] was a British physicist. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the Moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program.[6]
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Born | Samuel Turlausky (1906-11-17)17 November 1906 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
Died | 4 March 1973(1973-03-04) (aged 66) |
Alma mater | Durham University Armstrong College |
Known for | Optics, Interferometry, testing material from Apollo 11 |
Awards | C. V. Boys Prize Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Manchester Royal Holloway College University of London |
Doctoral advisor | William Lawrence Bragg |
Doctoral students | Daniel Joseph Bradley |
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