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Robert Paul Kraft (June 16, 1927 – May 26, 2015) was an American astronomer .[1] Cepheid variables , stellar rotation , novae , and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way . His name is also associated with the Kraft break : the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8.[2]
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Kraft served as director of the Lick Observatory (1981–1991), president of the American Astronomical Society (1974–1976), and president of the International Astronomical Union (1997–2000).[3]
He received his B.S. at the University of Washington in 1947, M.S. in mathematics at the University of Washington in 1949, and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley .[4] [5]
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^ "Robert P. Kraft, eminent astronomer and former director of UC Observatories, dies at age 87" . UC Santa Cruz News .
^ Kraft, Robert P. (2009). "An Astronomical Life Salted by Pure Chance" . Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics . 47 1 ): 1–26. Bibcode :2009ARA&A..47....1K . doi :10.1146/annurev-astro-082708-101743
^ "Robert P. Kraft, eminent astronomer and former director of UC Observatories, dies at age 87" . UC Santa Cruz News . Retrieved 2 June 2015 .
^ "The Bruce Medalists: Robert P. Kraft" . Retrieved 2010-02-01 .
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