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ROBERT B. LEIGHTON. September 10, 1919–March 9, 1997. ROBERT B. LEIGHTON, William L. Valentine professor of physics emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, was a remarkably ingenious physicist and astrophysicist. He found no instrumentation problem too difficult, especially if it might open a new part of the electromagnetic ...
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Robert Leighton may refer to: . Robert Leighton (bishop) (1611–1684), Scottish preacher, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, & academic Robert Leighton (author) (1858–1934), British author of historical adventure fiction and books about Dogs Robert Leighton (cartoonist) (born 1960), American writer, puzzle writer and cartoonist Robert B. Leighton (1919–1997), American physicist
Robert Leighton in the Caltech Synchrotron Building, working on the first of the 10.4 meter radio telescope dishes in 1974. Robert Benjamin Leighton (/ ˈ l eɪ t ən /; September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His work over the years spanned solid state physics ...
Leighton was offered the Archbishop's post in 1671, after the previous archbishop refused to accept indulgence. Due to increasing hostilities between the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians Leighton wanted to resign, but Charles II made him stay until 1674, when he retired to Horsted Keynes, in Sussex, to stay with his sister.
Robert Leighton, 1611–84, Scottish prelate and classical scholar. After several years in France, where he seems to have developed an admiration for the Jansenists, he became (1641) a Presbyterian minister in Midlothian and signed the Covenant in 1643 (see Covenanters). A noted preacher, he was made principal of the Univ. of Edinburgh in 1653 and professor of divinity.
10 de mar. de 1997 · PASADENA—Robert B. Leighton, a longtime physicist and astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, died Sunday, March 9, 1997, after a long illness. He was 77. Widely known for his innovative design of scientific instruments such as the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Leighton was active in many areas of physics and astronomy during his career.
