Allan Sandage

Research.com Recognitions

• 1970 - US President's National Medal of Science "For bringing the very limits of the universe within the reach of man's awareness and unraveling the evolution fo stars and galaxies--their origins and ages, distances and destinies.", Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on May 21, 1971.
• 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Evidence from the motions of old stars that the Galaxy collapsed.

  O. J. Eggen;D. Lynden-Bell;A. R. Sandage

  2444
  Citations

• Studies of the Virgo Cluster. II - A catalog of 2096 galaxies in the Virgo Cluster area. V - Luminosity functions of Virgo Cluster galaxies

  B. Binggeli;A. Sandage;G. A. Tammann

  1323
  Citations

• A revised Shapley-Ames catalog of bright galaxies

  Allan Sandage;G. A. Tammann

  870
  Citations

• The Hubble atlas of galaxies

  Allan Sandage

  821
  Citations

• Studies of the Virgo cluster. VI. Morphological and kinematical structure of the Virgo cluster

  Bruno Binggeli;G. A. Tammann;Allan Sandage

  652
  Citations

• The Luminosity Function of Galaxies

  Bruno Binggeli;Allan Sandage;G. A. Tammann

  651
  Citations

• The velocity field of bright nearby galaxies. I - The variation of mean absolute magnitude with redshift for galaxies in a magnitude-limited sample

  A. Sandage;G. A. Tammann;A. Yahil

  591
  Citations

• The color - absolute magnitude relation for E and S0 galaxies. I. Calibration and tests for universality using Virgo and eight other nearby clusters.

  N. Visvanathan;A. Sandage

  578
  Citations

• Redshifts and magnitudes of extragalactic nebulae.

  M. L. Humason;N. U. Mayall;A. R. Sandage

  568
  Citations

• The color-magnitude diagram for the globular cluster M 3.

  Allan R. Sandage

  562
  Citations

• The Change of Redshift and Apparent Luminosity of Galaxies due to the Deceleration of Selected Expanding Universes.

  Allan Sandage

  470
  Citations

• OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION OF 3C 48, 3C 196, AND 3C 286 WITH STELLAR OBJECTS

  Thomas A. Matthews;Allan R. Sandage

  468
  Citations

• The Carnegie atlas of galaxies

  Allan Sandage;John Bedke

  460
  Citations

• Studies of the Virgo Cluster. 5. Luminosity Functions of Virgo Cluster Galaxies

  A. Sandage;B. Binggeli;G. A. Tammann

  455
  Citations

• The Hubble Constant: A Summary of the HST Program for the Luminosity Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae by Means of Cepheids

  A. Sandage;G. A. Tammann;A. Saha;B. Reindl

  386
  Citations

• The Hubble Constant: A Summary of the Hubble Space Telescope Program for the Luminosity Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae by Means of Cepheids

  A. Sandage;G. A. Tammann;A. Saha;B. Reindl

  370
  Citations

• The Ability of the 200-Inch Telescope to Discriminate Between Selected World Models

  Allan Sandage

  365
  Citations

• New Period-Luminosity and Period-Color relations of classical Cepheids: I. Cepheids in the Galaxy

  G. A. Tammann;A. Sandage;B. Reindl

  352
  Citations

• The Existence of a Major New Constituent of the Universe: the Quasistellar Galaxies.

  Allan Sandage

  325
  Citations

• Energy Distributions, K Corrections, and the Stebbins-Whitford Effect for Giant Elliptical Galaxies

  J. B. Oke;Allan Sandage

  322
  Citations