Robert Kraft (astronomer)

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Nationality United States Awards Bruce Medal Doctoral advisor George Herbig Academic advisor George Herbig		Name Robert Kraft Role Astronomer

Born June 16, 1927Seattle, Washington, U.S. ( 1927-06-16 ) Alma mater University of Washington, University of California at Berkeley Died May 26, 2015, Santa Cruz, California, United States Education University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington
Notable students Nicholas B. Suntzeff

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Robert Paul "Bob" Kraft (June 16, 1927 – May 26, 2015) was an American astronomer. He performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. His name is also associated with the Kraft break: the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8.

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Career

Kraft served as director of the Lick Observatory (1981–1991), president of the American Astronomical Society (1974–1976), and president of the International Astronomical Union (1997–2000).

He received his B.S. at the University of Washington in 1947, M.S. in mathematics at the University of Washington in 1949, and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He died in 2015.

Awards

Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1962)

Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1995)

Bruce Medal (2005)

National Academy of Sciences

Named after him

Asteroid 3712 Kraft

References

Robert Kraft (astronomer) Wikipedia

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