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Scottish-American astronomer

Anneila Isabel Sargent (née Cassells; born 1942) is a Scottish–American astronomer who specializes in star formation.

Biography

Sargent was brought up in Burntisland, Fife, and schooled at Burntisland Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School.^[1] She completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics at the University of Edinburgh in 1963, and then immigrated to the United States, first studying at the University of California, Berkeley, and then from 1967 the California Institute of Technology, where she was awarded her Ph.D in 1977.^[1][2][3] She is currently the Ira S.

Bowen Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus at Caltech and has served as director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy.^[1][4] She served as president of the American Astronomical Society from 2000 to 2002, continuing to serve on the council since.