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John N. Bahcall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (609 words) |
 | Bahcall started his university career at Louisiana State University as a philosophy student on a tennis scholarship, and considered becoming a rabbi. |
| He was married to Princeton University professor in astrophysics Neta Bahcall, whom he first met while she was a graduate student at the Weizmann Institute in the 1960s. |
| Bahcall's other great contribution was in the development and implementation of the Hubble Telescope, alongside Lyman Spitzer, Jr from the 1970s through to the period after the telescope was launched in 1990. |
| John Bahcall; astrophysicist who helped find secrets of sun; 70 | The San Diego Union-Tribune (452 words) |
| John Norris Bahcall, an astrophysicist who found a new way to study the sun and was a major force behind the Hubble Space Telescope, has died. |
| Bahcall was born in Shreveport, La., in 1934 and considered becoming a rabbi before choosing science. |
| Bahcall said calculations by physicists – including himself – were flawed and that the tiny particles changed their shape. |
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