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K1AKE ham shack, 53 Austin St., Leominster, MA; 1958


400-MHz antenna; January 1959


High school graduation; 1959


1962 NRAO Summer School Program, Green Bank, WV: Jim (left) with other undergraduate students. The three people standing together in the center back are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Sergei Gaposchkin, and their son, Peter (a summer student); summer 1962.


VLBI trip to USSR, in Mishor, Crimea (Ai-Petri Mountain): Driver, Cosmo Papa, Jim, Steve Knowles, Bernie Burke; June 1971


199th AAS meeting, Washington, DC: Jim, Paul Ho, Fred Lo presenting the first images from the new Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea; January 6–10, 2002. AAS photo by Richard Dreiser © 2002 AAS


Cospar Conference, Rio de Janeiro; June 23, 1974


Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA: Jim, Barbara Smith-Moran, Michael Moran, Susan Moran, Zheng Xing-Wu; 1982


NRAO Summer School on Interferometry, Socorro, NM: Jim and Barry Clark at the patio entrance to the Val Verde Hotel; June 22–26, 1993. Jim wore these suspenders during his talk, which he borrowed from Barry, as a mantle of authority.


IAU Symposium 206, Cosmic Masers: From Protostars to Black Holes, Angra dos Reis (near Rio de Janeiro), Brazil: (l to r) Tomofumi Umemoto, Makoto Inoue, Mareki Honma, Jim, Jim Caswell (standing, back), Shinji Horuchi, Satoko Sawada-Satoh; March 2001


St. John, VI; March 2002


Dedication of the Submillimeter Array: Jim and Rolf Kudritski; November 23, 2003


Dedication of the Submillimeter Array: Yuan Lee, Larry Small, Jim, Fred Lo (2nd row), Dave Evans; November 23, 2003


CfA party for the 20th anniversary of the start of the SMA; December 10, 2004


Submillimeter Astronomy in the Era of the SMA, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: Charles Townes and Jim; June 13, 2005


Welch Symposium: Jack Welch and Jim; September 2005


Fred Chaffee, former director of Keck Observatory and SMA director at his joint retirement from Mauna Kea director’s board, and Jim; September 30, 2005


AUI board visit to Apex antenna, ALMA site, Atacama Desert, Chile: Jim, Aihnd Pevsner; October 29, 2005


Jansky Memorial, Bell Telephone Lab, Holmdel, NJ;
January 8, 2006


Yolo Avenue, Berkeley; January 2006


Grizzly Peak Century Ride, Berkeley, CA; May 2006


CARMA dedication; May 2006


Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek, CA; June 2006


Yellowstone National Park, WY; June 2006


IAU General Assembly XXVI, Prague, Czech Republic: Jim, Barbara, Makato Inoue, Igna and Jon Marcaide; August 2006


Albert Einstein Memorial, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; April 29, 2007


Barrett Prize lunch: Jim, Phil Myers, Ed Morgan, Al Levine, Tucker Jones (recipient), Hale Brandt; 2007


Astro 193 party: Phil Nutzman, Diego Munoz, Maryann Racine, Mackenzie Smith, Ben Maruca; May 18, 2007


Napa Valley, CA: Jim and Barbara; June 11, 2007


NRAO 50th Anniversary, Charlottesville, VA: Ken and Michele Kellermann, Rachael and Paul VandenBout, Carol and Dave Hogg; June 14, 2007


NRAO 50th Anniversary, Charlottesville, VA: Pat Thaddeus; June 19, 2007


Nantucket, MA: Jim and Barbara with Betsy and Vladimir Strelnitski; July 18, 2007


Grad student picnic: Ray and Liz Blundell, Jim, John Huchra; October 13, 2007


VLA, AUI board meeting; c. 2007


Platform of 1,000-ft. antenna, Arecibo, PR: Jim, Stefi Baum, Rich Kron; April 2008


Ham Radio Station, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; April 2008


TLW Fest, Madrid: Bernie Burke, Bob Rood, Betsy Burke, Jim, Ursala Wilson, Ralph and Madonna Gaume, Tom Wilson; June 18, 2008


Armagh Observatory, Armagh, Ireland: Jim, Shane Kelly, Toby Hinse; July 14, 2008


Armagh Observatory, Armagh, Ireland; July 14, 2008


Set of Smithsonian Institution documentary: Susan Spencer and Jim; August 11, 2008


Dalgarno Symposium, Cambridge; September 10–12, 2008


Campion Center, Weston, MA: Jim, Fr. Martin McCarthy SJ, Fr. Jim Skehan SJ, John Huchra; Sept. 13, 2008


ALMA site, original enclosure; October 15, 2008


ALMA site, inside trailer; October 15, 2008


Berkeley, CA: Charles and Frances Townes;
November 14, 2008


Cranberry Country Triathlon, Lakeville, MA; August 2009


Cranberry Country Triathlon, Lakeville, MA; August 2009


Jim, Zheng Xing-Wu, Charles Alcock; September 25, 2009


Reinhard Genzel, Mark Reid, Jim; March 12, 2010


Green Bank, WV: Don Backer and PAPER group;
May 5, 2010


Little Creatures Brew Pub, Fremantle, WA: Barbara and Jim; June 2010


Boolardy, Western Australia: MWA tile; July 2010


Boolardy Homestead, Western Australia; Ant Schinkel (checking oil) and Jim; July 2010


Berkeley Kite Festival: Susan and Jim Moran; July 2010


Cranberry County Triathlon; August 28, 2010


En route to IRAM interferometer on Plateau de Bure, Grenoble, France; October 1, 2010


Plateau de Bure, Grenoble, France: Karl Schuster and Jim; October 2010


Plateau de Bure, Grenoble, France: 4 of 6 elements;
October 2010


Plateau de Bure, Grenoble, France: George King and Jim at edge of plateau; October 2010


L'Epicurien restaurant, Place aux Herbes, France:
Dennis Downes and Jim; October 2010


Clock lab, Observatoire de Paris: Jim and Sebastian Bize; October 8, 2010


Observatoire de Paris: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri, Françoise Combes, and Jim; October 8, 2010


MWA Board semiannual meeting, Tempe, AZ: Jim, Steve Tingay, Roger Brissenden, Bryan Gaensler, Uday Shankar, Colin Lonsdale, Rachel Webster, Jackie Hewitt, Brian Schmidt; December 14, 2010


2011 MIT Excellence Awards: Susan Hockfield (president of MIT), Alan and Sarah Whitney, and Jim; March 1, 2011


Boston Marathon: Jim and Susan Moran at the finish line;
April 18, 2011


Millerfest, Goss’s Harvard connections: Jim, Miller Goss, Roger Kopp (PhD 1968); May 18–19, 2011


Millerfest, Goss’s VLBI colleagues: Walter Brisken, Crystal Brogan, Geoff Bower, Miller Goss, Shami Chatterjee, Jim, Ken Kellermann; May 18–19, 2011


Millerfest: Jim and Miller Goss; May 18–19, 2011


Millerfest: Ron Ekers and Dick Sramek; May 18–19, 2011


Millerfest: Carl Heiles and Shri Kulkarni; May 18–19, 2011


Millerfest: Old train station in Durango, CO; May 18–19, 2011


GSAS Centennial Medal lunch: Jim, Jeff Hoffman, Giovanni Fazio; May 25, 2011


Barrett Prize dinner: Deepto Chakrabarty, Joss Winn, Ashley Perko, Max Tegmark, Scott Hughes, Jim; May 31, 2011


Joe Waters, Cosmo Papa, Jim, Jack Barrett; July 19, 2011


Aphrodiasias, Turkey; August 2011


URSI General Assembly, Istanbul: Eric Shen and Jim;
August 2011


SKA Site Advisory Committee (SSAC), Paris Observatory grounds: Ernie Seaquist (lower left), Willem Brouw, Tom Garvin, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Peter Tindemans, Stefan Michalowski, Jim Moran, Ian Corbett, Jacqueline Van Gorkom, Jaap Baars, Jim Crocker, Subramaniam Ananthakrishnan, Roger Brissenden; January 27, 2012


Mr. Thomas’s Chop House, Manchester, UK, preparing for presentation of the SSAC report to the SKA Founding Board: Vern Pankonin, Jim, Roger Brissenden, Jocelyn Bell Burnell; March 18, 2012


Copley Square, finish of Boston Marathon, temperature of 90F! Jim and Susan Moran; April 16, 2012


RTS-2012 Retirement Celebration, Manchester, UK: Jim and Richard Schilizzi; April 19, 2012


Crafoord Prize Lecture, Lund, Sweden:
Reinhard Genzel; May 14, 2012


Crafoord Prize Symposium, Lund, Sweden:
Reinhard Genzel and Jim; May 14, 2012


Crafoord Prize Lecture, Lund, Sweden:
Andrea Ghez; May 15, 2012


Wapping Project Restaurant, London: Jim and Barbara Moran, Ania and Paul Kondratko; June 22, 2012


Queequeg's Restaurant, Nantucket, MA, after the Nantucket Triathlon: Sasha (Vladimir's granddaughter, age 12), Nan and Vladimir Strelnitski, Jim and Barbara Moran; July 22, 2012


Urumqi Observatory: Jun Zheng and family, Jim and Barbara Moran; August 2012


Museum near Great Wall (Mutianyu section): Vern Pankonin, Barbara and Jim Moran, Dorothy and Ed Churchwell, Janice and Bruce McAdam; August 2012


Xinjiang province, China, near the border with Kazakhstan: Jim and a Kazakh woman at a post-Ramadan feast in her home; August 2012


Peking Duck Restaurant: Shih-Ping Lai, Jin-Lin Han, You-Hua Chu, Barbara and Jim Moran; August 30, 2012


South Cathedral (aka Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, or Xuanwumen Church), Beijing: Jim and statue of Mateo Ricci, mathematician, cartographer, and Jesuit missionary to China (1582–1610); inside the church he founded in 1605; August 2012


Madame Shuhua Ye and Jim; August 2012


Reber Prize dinner: Barbara Moran, Russ Taylor, Dave Jauncey, Jim, Nikolai Kardashev (awardee), John Dickey, Ken Kellermann, Ron and Jill Ekers, Hirax Hirobayashi, Jasper Wall, Martin George; August 2012


Memorial session, IAU General Assembly XXVII, Beijing; August 2012


Urumqui 25-m VLBI antenna: Barbara Smith-Moran, Jim, and Emsibek Jarkin; August 2012


Jim and Vern Pankonin stepping through the Gates of Heaven, August 2012


NANOGrav advisory board meeting, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH: Dan Stinebring and Jim; October 22, 2012


Reception at Dan Stinebring's house for NANOGrav participants and advisory board, Oberlin, OH: Karla Hubbard (granddaughter of Karl Jansky) and Jim; October 23, 2012


Larson Symposium dinner: Phil Myers, Eve Ostriker, Jim Stone; October 26, 2012


MeerKAT headquarters, Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa: Jason Manley, Jim, Roy Booth, Bernie Fanaroff; November 23, 2012


64-element PAPER instrument, Karoo, South Africa; November 28, 2012


Frontiers of Contemporary Astrophysics Conference, Morelia, Mexico, at dedication of path in honor of Yolanda Gomez: Vicente, Cecelia, and Luis Rodriguez, Yolanda’s sister Irma and brother Jose Luis; Jim, Guido Garay; March 20, 2013


European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Turku, Finland: Reber Lecture; July 8, 2013


Grote Reber


European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Turku, Finland, Reber Lecture reception: Jim and Ken Kellermann; July 8, 2013


European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Turku, Finland, Reber Lecture reception: Ken Kellermann, Richard Davis, and Jim; July 8, 2013


European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Turku, Finland, Reber Prize dinner: Dave Jauncey, Bruce Partridge, Leonid Gurvitz, Olesya Gurvitz, Dorothay Jauncey, Michail Popov, Barbara and Jim Moran, Ken Kellermann, Heino Falcke, Martin George, and Esko Valtaoja; July 8, 2013


European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Turku, Finland, Reber Prize dinner: Dave Jauncey and Esko Valtaoja; July 8, 2013


Barbara Moran and the work of artist Kerttu Horila in church in Rauma, Finland; July 8, 2013


Jim and Barbara Moran arriving at Swissotel, Tallinn, Estonia; July 11, 2013


Subra Ananthakrishnan and Jim; July 22, 2013


Jim with remains of 40-MHz antenna; July 2013


IAU 303, Galactic Center, Santa Fe, NM: Anders Winnberg, Jim, Miller Goss; October 2, 2013


IAU 303, Galactic Center, Santa Fe, NM, Banquet at Coyote Cafe: Jim, Libby Goss, Barbara Moran, Miller Goss, Dominique Radakrishnan, Cornelia Lang


12-m VLBI station, Warkworth Observatory, Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand: Uday Shankar, Tim Natusch, Jim, Jordan Alexander, Peter Thomasson, Alan Maxwell, and Sergei Gulyaev; December 19, 2013


30-m antenna, Warksworth Observatory, Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand: Jim and Uday Shankar; December 19, 2013


Jim and Rich Bradley at URSI/USNC meeting in Boulder, CO, after Jim’s talk “Lessons Learned: Constructing the SMA”; January 9, 2014


Cambridge, MA: Jim, Bernie Burke, and Leonid Matveyenko; April 16, 2014


Washington, DC: Bob Kirshner receives the James Watson Medal; April 27, 2014


Fred Cruz and Jim at the 3rd China–U.S. Workshop on Radio Astronomy Science and Technology, Green Bank, WV; May 19–21, 2014


Socorro, NM: Jim explaining the Bracewell sundial at the VLA site to AUI board members; October 16, 2014


Within a Christian monastery clinging to the side of the “Mount of Temptation” in Jericho in the occupied West Bank; November 2014


Meeting with Bishop Gail Harris (of Massachusetts diocese) and the Anglican bishop of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon; November 2014


Memorial service for Charles Townes: Arno Penzias teaching Jim how to tie his tie; March 2015


Memorial service for Charles Townes: Jim, Frances Townes, and Barbara Smith-Moran; March 2015


Inaugural Symposium of Joint Institute for VLBI–European Research Infrastructure (JIVE–ERIC) Consortium, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands; George Miley, Leonid Gurvitz, Johan Hamaker, Jim; April 20–21, 2015


(foreground) Barbara Smith-Moran, Revathi Ananthakrishnan, Sudha Ananthakrishnan, Sonal Patel, Carolann Barrett, Vani Narayan; (background) Subra Ananthakrishnan, Ramesh Narayan, Nimesh Patel; June 28, 2015


Ramesh Narayan, Subra Ananthakrishnan, Nimesh Patel; June 28, 2015


Pumpkinman Triathlon, South Berwick, ME: Jim placing third; September 12, 2015


Pumpkinman Triathlon, South Berwick, ME: Tom Dame closing in at the finish line; September 12, 2015


Ray Blundell, Karl Schuster (director of IRAM), Jim, Bob Wilson at Legal Sea Foods; February 3, 2016


AUI board of trustees meeting: Walter Moos and Jim; June 9, 2016


John Kwan and Jim on the shores of the Danube during a Viking river cruise; July 5, 2016


Budapest, Hungary, during a Viking river cruise; July 15, 2016


At the antipodes, overlooking Queenstown, New Zealand, near Milford Sound: Barbara Smith-Moran and Jim; September 11, 2016


Barry Geldzahler and George Swenson, November 20, 2016


Susan Moran and Senator Ed Markey; February 18, 2017


Black Hole Astrophysics with VLBI: Past, Present, and Future, a workshop in honor of Makoto Inoue’s retirement, Tokyo: Makoto Inoue and Jim; March 27, 2017


Black Hole Astrophysics with VLBI: Past, Present, and Future, a workshop in honor of Makoto Inoue’s retirement, Tokyo: Eric Shen and Jim; March 27, 2017


Black Hole Astrophysics with VLBI: Past, Present, and Future, a workshop in honor of Makoto Inoue’s retirement, Tokyo: Jim giving a toast at the banquet; March 27, 2017


Black Hole Astrophysics with VLBI: Past, Present, and Future, a workshop in honor of Makoto Inoue’s retirement, Toyko: Eric Shen, Mareki Honma, Ed Fomalont, Jim, Dave Jauncey, Makoto Inoue; March 27, 2017


Boston Marathon: Jim and Susan Moran; April 17, 2017


Boston Marathon: Susan Moran; April 17, 2017


Boston Marathon: Susan Moran and Barbara Smith-Moran; April 17, 2017


Boston Marathon: Barbara Smith-Moran, Susan Moran, Jim; April 17, 2017


Boston Marathon: Susan Moran at mile 14; April 17, 2017


RadioAstron colleague Andrej Sobolev in Jumeriah Beach Residence, Dubai, UAE, recovering from a hard winter in Yekaterinburg, Russia; April 2017


National Academy of Sciences annual meeting: Jim and Susan Moran at the Albert Einstein Memorial, Washington, DC; April 30, 2017


Jim receiving VLBI T-Shirt from Huib van Langerfeld, URSI XXXIInd General Assembly, Montreal; August 2017


Jim, Ed Lilley, and Ben Zuckerman, Chevy Chase, MD; January 9, 2018


Alan Whitney, Jim, and Alan Rogers, 50 Years of Geodetic VLBI celebration; April 2018


Carl Gwinn and Jim, at Joel Smith’s VLBI Soiree, Pasadena, CA; July 15, 2018


Yuri Kovalev and Phil Edwards at Joel Smith’s VLBI Soiree, Pasadena, CA; July 15, 2018


Jim, Dave Jauncey, Norbert Bartel, and Michael Johnson, at Joel Smith’s VLBI Soiree, Pasadena, CA; July 15, 2018


Eric Shen and Jim at Lo Memorial Lecture, Shanghai, China; September 11, 2018


Jim and Paul Ho, co-chief commanders at VLBI command control, Shanghai, China; September 12, 2018


Madame Ye, Shanghai Observatory; September 12, 2018


Jim with Prof. Zhelin Wang, VP of Research, Nanjing University, receiving concurrent professorship certificate; September 13, 2018


Jim under FAST, Guiyang, China; September 15, 2018


Jim with Li Jing, Chinese translator of TMS3, FAST; September 15, 2018


Jim with Suijian Xue and FAST model, at NAOC, Beijing, China; September 17, 2018


Jim with Luis Ho, Kavli Institute, Beijing, China; September 18, 2018


Jim at cossack home, QTT 110-m dish site, Xinjiang, China; September 21, 2018


Jim at cossack home, QTT 110-m dish site, Xinjiang, China; September 21, 2018