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Adrian Price-Whelan is an American astronomer and researcher who is known for discovering the star cluster Price-Whelan 1. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is the son of Michael Whelan . [ 4 ] [ better source needed ]
The society was founded in 1899 through the efforts of George Ellery Hale. The constitution of the group was written by Hale, George Comstock, Edward Morley, Simon Newcomb and Edward Charles Pickering. These men, plus four others, were the first Executive Council of the society; Newcomb was the first president. The initial membership was 114.
Sigma Pi Sigma (ΣΠΣ), founded at Davidson College on December 11, 1921, is the oldest [1] and only American honor society for physics and astronomy. [2] It is an organization within the Society of Physics Students and the American Institute of Physics and a member of the Association of College Honor Societies. [3]
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IAPS is run by an Executive Committee, which is elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). IAPS members may be national physics student organisations, called National Committees (NC), physics student association localised at one university or city, called Local Committees (LC) and individual members (IM) if none of the before are present where one studies.
HR – (astrophysics terminology) Hertzsprung–Russell, a diagram that compares stars' colors to their luminosities; HRC-I – (instrumentation) High Resolution Camera, an instrument on the Chandra X-ray Observatory; HRD – (instrumentation) High Rate Detector, an instrument on the Cassini spacecraft
In January 2018, Mack became an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University and a member of the university's Leadership in Public Science Cluster. [18] [19] She joined the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in June 2022 as the inaugural Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication.
The CfA also serves a major role in the global astrophysics research community: the CfA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS), for example, has been universally adopted [2] as the world's online database of astronomy and physics papers.