John N. Bahcall
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John N. Bahcall (born December 30 1934) is an American astrophysicist.
He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1961.
He works at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has studied the solar neutrino problem and quasars. He is married to Princeton University professor in astrophysics Neta Bahcall.
He has won numerous awards, including the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 1999 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2003.
External link
- Homepage (http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/)
- Institute for Advanced Study bio (http://www.ias.edu/About/faculty/bahcall.php)sl:John Norris Bahcall