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- Born in
- Memphis
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityCornell UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyWhite Station High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Rhysling Award🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Kip S. Thorne
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1948
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