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Icko Iben

American astronomer

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born: 1931
died: 2025
age at death: 93
known for: astronomer, university teacher

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Icko Iben, Jr. was an American astronomer and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1958 with thesis Higher order effects in beta decay, which was jointly supervised by John David Jackson and Joseph Weneser. Iben served on the MIT Physics Department faculty for some time before moving to Illinois, being promoted to associate professor in 1964.

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