Robert Jackson (scientist)
Robert Earl Jackson ( b. 1949 ) is an American astronomer who in 1976 discovered the Faber -Jackson relation, together with Sandra Moore Faber. The Faber -Jackson relation is an experimentally observed relationship between the luminosity and the velocity dispersion in elliptical galaxies.
- Astronomer ( 20th century)
- Astronomer ( 21st century)
- Americans
- Born in 1949
- Man