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Robert B. Leighton
Robert Benjamin Leighton
(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
,
cosmic ray
physics, the beginnings of modern
particle physics
,
solar physics
, the
planets
,
infrared astronomy
, and
millimeter-
and
submillimeter-wave
astronomy
. In the latter four fields, his pioneering work opened up entirely new areas of research that subsequently developed into vigorous scientific communities.
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