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Name:	Allan Rex Sandage
Birth Date:	June 18, 1926
Place of Birth:	Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Nationality:	American
Gender:	Male
Occupations:	astronomer, observational cosmologist

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Astronomer Allan Rex Sandage (born 1926) took it as his life's work to find out how old and how large the universe is. His work led him to conclude the universe is 15 billion to 20 billion years old. Sandage is credited with the discovery of quasars,...

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1926- American astronomer who was a pioneer in radio astronomy and who, in 1961, discovered quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources). Located billions of light-years away, quasars are sources of radio waves, the first radio source discovered beyond the...

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Allan Sandage

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