John Norris Bahcall

American astrophysicist best known for his contributions to the understanding and explanation of the solar neutrino, development of the Hubble Space Telescope and leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Best known for his work in establishing the Standard Solar Model, he spent much of his life working with physical chemist Raymond Davis, Jr. Together, Davis and Bahcall collaborated on the Homestake Experiment, and discrepancies in detected neutrino flux took Davis and Bahcall more than 30 years to resvolve. Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba received the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics for work observing the neutrinos predicted by Bahcall.

Bahcallreceived NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1992 for his work implementing and developing Hubble.

The standard model of a galaxy, with a massive black hole surrounded by stars, is known as the Bahcall-Wolf model. And for many years the Bahcall-Soneira model was the model for the structure of the Milky Way. He also contributed to accurate models of stellar interiors.

Author of more than 600 scientific papers and five books in the field of astrophysics, he received the Helen B. Warner Prize in 1970, the Heineman Prize in 1994, the Hans Bethe Prize and the National Medal of Science in 1998, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 1999, the Dan David Prize, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Fermi Award (with Raymond Davis Jr.) in 2003, and the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2004.

• Reference: U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) - SmartCopy: Oct 6 2020, 5:35:25 UTC