Former Students
All of my Ph.D. students are listed below. Remarkably, like me, they almost all
showed a reluctance to work for a living and instead found jobs in academia.
- Don Cox (Professor, University of Wisconsin; Don started his thesis on supernova remnants with me at U. C. San Diego and finished it with
Bill Mathews when I left for Caltech )
- Pat Osmer (Professor and Chair, Ohio State University)
- Clark Christensen (Associate Professor, Brigham Young University;
Bev Oke and I acted as joint advisers )
- Bob O'Connell (Professor, University of Virginia)
- Georges Michaud (Professor, University of Montreal; Willy Fowler
and I acted as joint advisers )
- John Huchra (Professor, Harvard University; Member, National Academy of Sciences )
- John Kormendy (Professor, University of Texas)
- Bill Bagnuolo (Associate Professor, Georgia State University)
- Ed Turner (Professor, Princeton University)
- Peter Young (deceased 1981; formerly Assistant Professor, Caltech)
- Steve Kent (Professor, University of Chicago and Staff
Member, FermiLab)
- Matt Malkan (Professor, UCLA)
- Daniel Kunth (Directeur de Recherche, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris; Daniel obtained his Ph.D. at the Institut d'Astrophysique after spending three years on leave with me at Caltech. He claims that I was his only advisor. )
- Alex Filippenko (Professor, University of Calfornia at Berkeley; Member, National Academy of Sciences )
- Chuck Steidel (Professor, Caltech; Member, National Academy of Sciences )
- Todd Small (First Quadrant Corp., Pasadena, CA)
- Rob Simcoe (Assistant Professor, MIT)
- George Becker (Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University)
Anyone who is not on this list and thinks that they should be, or anyone
who is on it and thinks that they should not be, should contact me by email.
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page by Wallace Sargent, last updated July 14, 2009