Robert Benjamin Leighton
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                        1919
      1997
      California Institute of Technology
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                                                                              Pasadena, CA
      Physicist; Astronomer; Educator
      Area
                                Mathematical and Physical Sciences
                            Specialty
                                Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences
                            Elected
                                    1963
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