| LC control no. | n 89616024 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Neugebauer, G. (Gerry) |
| Variant(s) | Neugebauer, Gerry Neugebauer, Gerhart Otto |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19320903 |
| Death date | 20140926 |
| Place of birth | Göttingen (Germany) |
| Place of death | Tucson (Ariz.) |
| Field of activity | Infrared astronomy |
| Affiliation | Palomar Observatory California Institute of Technology |
| Profession or occupation | Astrophysicists College teachers |
| Found in | nuc88-15632: Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), 1984? (hdg. on WU rept.: Neugebauer, Gerry; usage: G. Neugebauer) LC data base, 3-16-89 (hdg.: Neugebauer, Gerry; usage: G. Neugebauer) His Two-micron sky survey, 1969: t.p. (G. Neugebauer; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena) p. iv (Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy) AMWS, 1982: (Neugebauer, Gerry; b. Gottingen, W. Ger., 9/3/32; prof., Calif. Inst. of Tech.) New York times (online), viewed Oct. 3, 2014 (in obituary published Oct. 2: Gerry Neugebauer; b. Gerhart Otto Neugebauer, Sept. 3, 1932, Gottingen, Germany; moved to Copenhagen with his family in 1933, and to Providence, R.I. in 1939; legally changed his name to Gerry (pronounced Gary) as a teenager; d. Sept. 26, near Tucson, Ariz., aged 82; astrophysicist who pioneered ways to peer into previously invisible sectors of outer space, helping to discover hundreds of thousands of planets, stars, and galaxies; his biggest achievement was in detecting and interpreting infrared radiation emanating from outer space to provide insights about the universe that radio waves or X-rays cannot) |
| Associated language | eng |
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