Curt Michel
Curtis Michel | |
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Michel (c. mid to late 1960s) | |
| Born | Frank Curtis Michel June 5, 1934 La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | February 26, 2015 (aged 80) |
| Resting place | Houston National Cemetery |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS, PhD) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (1979) Humboldt Prize (1983) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Selection | NASA Group 4 (1965) |
| Retirement | August 18, 1969 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Rice University |
| Thesis | The Beta Spectra of the Mass 12 Nuclei (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Lauritsen |
Frank Curtis "Curt" Michel (June 5, 1934 – February 26, 2015) was an American astrophysicist; a professor of astrophysics at Rice University in Houston, Texas; a United States Air Force pilot; and a NASA astronaut.