| Authorised form of name | Dalgarno; Alexander (1928 - 2015) |
| Dates | 1928 - 2015 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 05/01/1928 |
| Date of death | 09/04/2015 |
| Research field | Astrophysics |
| Astronomy |
| Theoretical chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
University College, London; BSc (1947), PhD in theoretical physics (1951)
Career:
Queen's University, Belfast (1951-1967); Harvard Department of Astronomy (joined 1967, department chairman 1971-1976); Harvard College Observatory (acting director, 1971-1973); Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts (joined 1967); Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (associate director 1973-1980); Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (director 1988-1993)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1972 |
| Age at election | 44 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 2002 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2020 vol 69, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0009 |
| Virtual International Authority File | https://viaf.org/viaf/36979431/ |
| Code | NA3935 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/001040 | Dalgarno, Alexander | nd |
| EC/1972/11 | Dalgarno, Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| AP/83/8 | Supporting data, regarding 'An expansion method for calculating atomic properties X. 1s2 1S-1snp 1P transitions of the helium sequence' by Alexander Dalgarno and E M Parkinson | [1967] |
| RR/75/318 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The interaction of normal and metastable helium atoms' by R A Buckingham and Alexander Dalgarno | 6 December 1951 |