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Prof. Robert Kirshner (Harvard Astronomy) and Michael
Stecker at
GMT
casting meeting at the Westward Look Resort
in Tucson, Arizona,
2005
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About Robert Kirschner
from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirshner
Robert Kirschner received his A.B. magna
cum laude in Astronomy from Harvard College in 1970, where he also won
a Bowdoin Prize for Useful and Polite Literature. He earned his Ph.D.,
also in Astronomy, from Caltech in 1975. In 2004, he received the Caltech
Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2010, he received an honorary Doctor of
Science from the University of Chicago. In 2011, he won the Dannie
Heineman Prize in Astrophysics from the American Institute of Physics. In
2012, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2014, he won the James Craig
Watson Medal for service to astronomy from the National Academy of
Sciences and shared in the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with
the High-Z Team. In 2015, he shared the
Wolf Prize
in Physics with B.J. Bjorken. He is a popular writer and speaker.
At Harvard, he was Professor of Astronomy (1985–2016),
served as the chair of the Astronomy Department (1990–1997) and as Harvard
College Professor (2004–2009). He was appointed as the Clowes Professor of
Science in 2001. From 1998 - 2004, he was the Director of the Optical and
Infrared Division at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He helped Harvard join
the Magellan Observatory
in Chile and the Giant Magellan Telescope project.
Prior to joining Harvard in 1985, he worked at Kitt Peak
National Observatory and taught at the
University of Michigan for 9 years, where he rose to become Professor
and Chairman of the Astronomy Department and helped to build the 2.4 meter
Hiltner Telescope. At Michigan, he received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
and won the Henry Russel Award. |