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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 December 1934
- Died
- 17 August 2005, 2005
- Place of birth
- Shreveport
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Bahcall
- Spouse
- Neta Bahcall
- Field of work
- astrophysics
- Occupation
- astronomer, astrophysicist, physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Benjamin Franklin Medal, Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, Hans A. Bethe Prize, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, National Medal of Science, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, Dan David Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Comstock Prize in Physics, Enrico Fermi Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- described by source
- Obituary: John Norris Bahcall 1935-2005., The Scientific Life of John Bahcall
- doctoral student
- Christopher M.L. Flynn
- educated at
- Harvard University, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, Louisiana State University, C. E. Byrd High School
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- John Norris Bahcall
- place of burial
- Princeton Cemetery
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