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Lyman Spitzer, Jr. ( June 26 , 1914 – March 31 , 1997 ) was an American Theoretical Physicist . He was born in Toledo , Ohio . He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1931, received his BA from Yale University in 1935, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, where he was advised by Henry Norris Russell . He is one of the key figures of 20th century physics, who helped lay down the fundamentals of the physics of Plasmas and the Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium . He founded the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory , and in 1946, he envisioned what would eventually become the Hubble Space Telescope . One of his more famous students was George Field . Spitzer died in Princeton , New Jersey . The NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is named after him. It studies the infrared sky from an Earth trailing orbit. FUSION RESEARCH . Source: US DOE Archives, 326 US Atomic Energy Commission, Collection: AEC Meetings, Box: Minutes, Meeting No 582, 10:30 AM, Thursday, July 26, 1951. HONORS Awards
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