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william, ward, astronomer, william, roger, ward, january, 1944, september, 2018, american, astronomer, william, roger, wardborn, 1944, january, 1944kansas, city, kansasdiedseptember, 2018, 2018, aged, prescott, arizonaeducationph, alma, materuniversity, missou. William Roger Ward January 11 1944 September 20 2018 was an American astronomer William Roger WardBorn 1944 01 11 January 11 1944Kansas City KansasDiedSeptember 20 2018 2018 09 20 aged 74 Prescott ArizonaEducationPh D Alma materUniversity of MissouriCalifornia Institute of TechnologyKnown forPlanetary migration theorySpouseSandra KayChildren3AwardsNASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement MedalBrouwer AwardGerard P Kuiper PrizeScientific careerFieldsPlanetary formationThesisThe Formation of Planetesimals 1972 Doctoral advisorPeter GoldreichBorn in Kansas City Kansas Ward studied mathematics and physics at University of Missouri and completed a doctoral degree at California Institute of Technology in 1972 He became an astronomy theoretician studying how planetary systems formed and evolved His career began at the Harvard s Center for Astrophysics then he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977 In 1998 he joined the Southwest Research Institute branch located in Boulder Colorado He retired in 2014 1 Over the course of his research career he received the Brouwer Award from the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society in 2003 and the Gerard P Kuiper Prize in 2011 He was granted fellowship by the American Geophysical Union 2005 the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2006 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2012 In 2015 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences 2 3 Ward died of a brain tumor in Prescott Arizona on September 20 2018 4 References Edit Canup Robin M May 2019 Obituary William R Ward 1930 2018 Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51 2 0302 Bibcode 2019BAAS 51b0302C 0302 William R Ward University of Colorado Boulder Retrieved September 25 2018 William R Ward National Academy of Sciences Retrieved September 25 2018 Obituary for William Roger Ward Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title William Ward astronomer amp oldid 1158349304, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
