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Born, October
25, 1929, Providence, Rhode Island
Married, February 26, 1981, to Susan Gebhart. Two children by a previous
marriage.
Present Positions:
Senior Research Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Robert Wheeler Willson Research Professor of Applied Astronomy, Harvard University.
Past Positions:
Physicist, Naval Ordnance
Laboratory, 1951-1952
Research Assistant, Princeton University, 1952-1954
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1955-1957
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University, 1957-1962
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University, 1962-1965
Visiting Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1964
Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, 1965-1972
Phillips Visitor, Haverford College, 1965
Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1969
Chair, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,
1970-1971
Phillips Visitor, Haverford College, 1971
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University, 1972-1973
Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Harvard University, 1973-1982
Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1973-1982
Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1973-1982
Director, Harvard College Observatory, 1973-1982
Lecturer, Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique, Les Houches, France, 1974
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1983
BS (Physics), Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1951
Ph.D. (Astronomy), Princeton University, 1955
National Science Foundation
Fellow, 1954-1955
Guggenheim Fellow, 1960-1961
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1970-
NASA Public Service Medal, 1977
Smithsonian Institution Certificate of Award
for Exceptional Services, 1977
Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomical Society, 1978
Joseph Henry Medal of the Smithsonian Institution, 1982
NASA Group Achievement Award, National Commission
on Space, 1986
Society of Sigma XI
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Astronomical Society
American Physical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
International Astronomical Union
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Astronomical Society (Associate)
Planetology Subcommittee,
Space Science Steering Committee, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
1964-1966
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council Panel on Astronomy
Advisory to Office of Naval Research, 1965-1966
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council Summer Study
on Space Science, 1965
Space Science Panel, President's Scientific Advisory Committee, 1966-1967
Astronomy Panel, National Science Foundation, 1966-1969, (Chair 1967-1969)
Visiting Committee, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 1967-1969
Nominating Committee, American Astronomical Society, 1967-1970, (Chair
1969-1970)
Committee on Elections, American Astronomical Society, 1968-1969
Astronomy Missions Board, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
1968-1970
Correspondent, Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics, 1968-1971
Coeditor, Gordon and Breach Series on Astrophysics and Space Science,
1968-1975
Board of Editors, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1968-1970
Physics Survey Committee, National Academy of Sciences - National Research
Council, 1969-1972
Astronomy Survey Committee, National Academy of Sciences - National Research
Council, 1969-1972
Panel on Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences - National Research
Council Astronomy Survey, 1969-1972
Panel on Astrophysics and Relativity, National Academy of Sciences - National
Research Council Physics and Astronomy Surveys, 1969-1972, (Chair 1969-1972)
Trustee-at-Large, Associated Universities, Inc., 1969-1972
Vice President and Chair of Section D, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 1971-1972
Russell Lecture Committee, American Astronomical Society, 1972-1973, (Chair
1973)
Vice-Chair, High-Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical
Society, 1972
Advisory Board, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, 1971-1974
Visiting Committee, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California
Institute of Technology, 1971-present
Trustee, Member of the Corporation and Member of the Executive Committee,
Aspen Center for Physics, 1972-1974
Chair, Editorial Committee, Harvard Books on Astronomy, 1973-1984
Council, American Astronomical Society, 1973-1976
Vice President, Commission 34 (Interstellar Matter), International Astronomical
Union, 1973-1976
Editorial Board, Astrophysical Journal,1973-1977
Working Group on Space Telescope, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
1973-1977
Chair, High-Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical Society,
1973
Board of Trustees, Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation, 1973-1982
Editorial Board, Astrophysics and Space Science, 1974-1982
NASA Management and Operations Working Group on Shuttle Astronomy, 1974-1976
Chair, Boyden Observatory Council, 1974-1976
Chair, Organizing Committee of International Astronomical Union Symposium
No. 75, "Star Formation," 1974-1976
Physical Sciences Committee of the NASA Space Program Advisory Council,
1974-1977, (Chair, 1975-1977)
Space Program Advisory Council, NASA, 1975-1977
National Academy of Sciences
Committee on Study of Uses of Balloons for Scientific Purposes, 1975-1976
Editorial Board, Space Science Reviews, 1975-1982
Visiting Committee to Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1975
Advisory Panel on Orientation and Roles, University Space Research Association,
1975
Space Science Board, National Research Council, liaison representative
of NASA's Physical Sciences Committee, 1976-1977
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation Visiting Committee for
the Department of Physics,1976-1982
President, Commission 34 (Interstellar Matter), International Astronomical
Union, 1976-1979
Visiting Committee to the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University
of Colorado, Boulder, 1977
NASA Space Advisory Council, Executive Committee, 1978-1981
Chair, National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council Astronomy
Survey, 1978-1982
International Astronomical Union, Committee for Commission 34, 1980-1983
National Academy of Sciences, US National Committee - International Astronomical
Union, Category I, 1982-1985
Editorial Council of the Annals of Physics, 1982-1988
Elector to the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy at the University of
Cambridge, England, 1982-1986
Chair, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Briefing
Panel on Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1982-1983
Board of Trustees, Institute for Advanced Study, 1983-1985
Space Telescope Advisory Committee, Space Telescope Science Institute;
1983-1987, (Chair, 1984-1987)
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council Astronomy and
Astrophysics Task Group, 1984-1988
Member-at-Large, Committee for Section D (Astronomy), American Association
for the Advancement of Science, 1984-1988
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Space Science
Board Steering Group for the Study Space Science in the Twenty-first Century,
1995-2015, 1984-1988
NASA Astrophysics Council, 1985-1986
President's National Commission on Space, 1985-1986
Visiting Committee to Space Telescope Science Institute, 1985-1987 (Chair,
1986)
Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy, American Astronomical Society,
1986-1989
Trustee, Boston Museum of Science, 1986-1989
External Review Committee to the Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University,
1987
Member of Founding Faculty, International Space University, 1987
Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1987-1988
NSF Advisory Committee for Astronomical Sciences: Subcommittee on National
Optical Astronomy Observatories, 1988
Organizing Committee, Saltmarsh Meeting on the Relationship between Civilian
and Military Uses of Space, King's College, Cambridge, 1988
Proposal Initiation
Committee for Astronomy, National Research Council, 1988
Special Nominating Committee, International Astronomical Union, 1988
Chair, Interstellar Medium Panel, Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee,
1989
National Academy of Sciences, US National Committee-International Astronomical
Union, Category III, 1991-1993
National Science Foundation, Subcommittee on Advance Planning, Astronomy
Advisory Committee, 1990
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Class I Membership Committee, 1991-1993
Sponsor, Federation of American Scientists, 1990-present
Chair, American Astronomical Society Committee on Astronomy and Public
Policy, 1994-1996
Member, National Academy of Sciences–National Research Council Panel
on the Evaluation of the NSF Science and Technology Centers, 1995-1996
Member, Phi Beta Kappa Science Award Committee, 1995-1997
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