"It was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, but I fell in love with science. He took his first physics class to fulfill a graduation science requirement, later saying: At the end of his freshmen year, he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, still studying philosophy. Academic career īahcall began his university studies at Louisiana State University as a philosophy student on a tennis scholarship, where he considered pursuing the rabbinate. He died in New York on 17 August 2005 from a rare blood disorder. īahcall married Princeton University astrophysics professor Neta Bahcall, whom he met as a graduate student at the Weizmann Institute in the 1960s. In high school he was a state tennis champion and a national debate champion (1952). He did not take science classes at high school. Early and family life īahcall was born into a Jewish family in Shreveport, Louisiana on December 30, 1934, and would later describe an early aspiration to become a Reform rabbi. He was known for a wide range of contributions to solar, galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, including the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. John Norris Bahcall (Decem– August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist and the Richard Black Professor for Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1994)
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