Anneila Sargent is a Scottish–American astronomer, who specializes in star formation. Sargent was brought up in Burntisland, Fife, and schooled at Burntisland Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School. She completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics at the University of Edinburgh in 1963, and then emigrated to the United States, first studying at the University of California, and then from 1967 the California Institute of Technology. She is currently the Benjamin M.

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  • Anneila Sargent is a Scottish–American astronomer, who specializes in star formation. Sargent was brought up in Burntisland, Fife, and schooled at Burntisland Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School. She completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics at the University of Edinburgh in 1963, and then emigrated to the United States, first studying at the University of California, and then from 1967 the California Institute of Technology. She is currently the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Astronomy at Caltech and has served as director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy. She served as president of the American Astronomical Society from 2000 to 2002. Sargent became the Vice President for Student Affairs at Caltech on December 1, 2007. Sargent won the NASA Public Service Medal in 1998. Asteroid 18244 Anneila is named in her honor. Her husband is fellow astronomer Wallace L. W. Sargent.
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  • June 2009
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  • Anneila Sargent is a Scottish–American astronomer, who specializes in star formation. Sargent was brought up in Burntisland, Fife, and schooled at Burntisland Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School. She completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics at the University of Edinburgh in 1963, and then emigrated to the United States, first studying at the University of California, and then from 1967 the California Institute of Technology. She is currently the Benjamin M.
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  • Anneila Sargent
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