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Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American astronomer and cosmologist.He is a university distinguished professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is director of the Astronomy Program.
In 1974 he joined the Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. He became the Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor of Astronomy in 1985. [3] Wheeler served as the President of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) from 2006 to 2008. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007. [4]
1998 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London; 1999 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics of the American Institute of Physics and the American Astronomical Society; 2001 Tinsley Professor at the University of Texas; 2001 Bishop Lecturer at Columbia University; 2001 Named by ISI as one of Australia's 35 most highly cited scientists ...
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics: American Astronomical Society / American Institute of Physics: United States: Outstanding work in astrophysics [13] Edgar Wilson Award: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory : United States: Amateur comet discoverers [14] [15] [16] George Ellery Hale Prize: Solar Physics Division, American Astronomical ...
Paul Robert Shapiro is an American astrophysicist.. Shapiro earned a bachelor's degree and doctorate from Harvard University, in 1974 and 1978, respectively, [1] and began teaching at the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, after completing postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study. [2]
Stern was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to Jewish parents Joel and Leonard Stern. [3] He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1975. He then attended the University of Texas, Austin, where he received his bachelor's degrees in physics & astronomy and his master's degrees in aerospace engineering and planetary atmospheres.
Tremblay is an author on more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in academic journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nature, and Astronomy & Astrophysics, and he frequently collaborates with astronomers such as Françoise Combes, Andrew Fabian, and Megan Donahue.
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.