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American astronomer
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Place of birth
Seattle, King County, Washington, U.S.A.
Place of death
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California, U.S.A.
Age
88 years
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Biography
Robert Paul "Bob" Kraft (June 16, 1927 – May 26, 2015) was an American astronomer. He performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way.
Career
Kraft served as director of the Lick Observatory (1981–1991), president of the American Astronomical Society (1974–1976), and president of the International Astronomical Union (1997–2000).
He received his B.S. at the University of Washington in 1947, M.S. in mathematics at the University of Washington in 1949, and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He died in 2015.
Honors
Awards
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1962)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1995)
- Bruce Medal (2005)
- National Academy of Sciences
Named after him
- Asteroid 3712 Kraft
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