Robert Jastrow
Affiliations: | 1958-1981 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC, United States | |
| 1981- | Geophysics | Columbia University, New York, NY |
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"Robert Jastrow"Bio:
(1925 - 2008)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jastrow
A NATIVE New Yorker, Dr. Jastrow obtained his doctorate from Columbia at 22. While a student in the College, his first interest lay in the behavior of rats. Dr. Fred Keller, then assistant professor of Psychology, urged him to study calculus, as an aid to his behavioral research. Finding the subject matter so exciting, Dr. Jastrow switched from his pre-med curriculum to biophysics and finally to pure physics. Studying with Dr. A. H. Kramer, visiting professor at Columbia from the Netherlands, he wrote his doctoral thesis on The Rydberg-Ritz Formula in Quantum Mechanics.
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Sign in to add mentor| Hendrik Antonie Kramers | grad student | 1948 | Columbia (Physics Tree) | |
| (The Rydberg-Ritz Formula in Quantum Mechanics) | ||||
| Hendrik Antonie Kramers | post-doc | 1948-1949 | Leiden (Physics Tree) | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | post-doc | 1949-1950 | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Physics Tree) | |