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Dan Milisavljevic (born January 31, 1980) is a Canadian astronomer and assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University. [1]Milisavljevic received his undergraduate education at McMaster University, where he was enrolled in the prestigious McMaster Arts and Science Programme.
Chris H. Greene is an American physicist and the Albert Overhauser Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. [1] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019. [1]
He completed an undergraduate degree at Purdue University and a graduate degree in astronomy at Indiana University. [1] On April 20, 1950, he discovered the minor planet (1575) Winifred at Brooklyn, Indiana. [2] He named the body for Winifred Sawtell, who became his wife and colleague Winifred Cameron. [3]
The Summer Science Program (SSP) is an academic summer program where high school students experience college-level education and do research in celestial mechanics by studying the orbits of asteroids, biochemistry by studying the kinetic properties of enzymes, genomics by studying antibiotic resistance, or synthetic chemistry by studying macrocyclic catalysts.
Purdue's first Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering was awarded to R. L. Duncan in 1950 for his work with Professor Maurice Zucrow on the performance of gas turbines. [4] The school's present name was adopted in 1973. [5] Purdue students have built and restored several aircraft as part of the program.
She attended Purdue University, earning a bachelor's of science in 1935. She won the Flora Roberts Medal as "outstanding senior woman" in her class at Purdue. [2] [3] She earned a PhD in astronomy from Harvard University in 1941, where she held a Pickering Fellowship in 1936 [4] and worked with Harlow Shapley and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. [5] [1]
Canes Venatici (/ ˈ k eɪ n iː z v ɪ ˈ n æ t ɪ s aɪ / KAY-neez vin-AT-iss-eye) is one of the 88 constellations designated by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It is a small northern constellation that was created by Johannes Hevelius in the 17th century.
Richard Goldstein was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 11, 1927. [1] He studied Electrical Engineering at Purdue.After working at his family furniture store for eleven years, he followed his brother (astronomer Samuel J. Goldstein, Jr.) to California and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.