From the Department Chair
Welcome to the Department of Astronomy at Harvard
University, located within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Our department is young in spirit but has a century-old tradition of exceptional graduate students and faculty. Our teaching and research interests span the entire Universe with exciting observational and theoretical programs in cosmology, extra-solar planets, transients, star formation, black holes and high-energy astrophysics.
We are delighted to have you visit our vibrant academic home!
Professor Avi Loeb
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science;
Chair, Astronomy Department
Director, Institute for Theory & Computation
Harvard University
Contact
Astronomy Department Chair
Administrative Staff
Ms. Peg Herlihy, Department Administrator, pherlihy@cfa.harvard.edu
Room, P-243
617-495-3753
Ms. Donna Adams, Graduate Coordinator, dadams@cfa.harvard.edu
Room P-241
495-3752
Fax: 617-495-7008
Mailing Address
Harvard Astronomy Department
60 Garden Street, MS 46
Cambridge, MA 02138
Academic Contacts
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Prof. David Charbonneau
Questions and Comments about the website: Sarah Block, sblock@cfa.harvard.edu
Directions
The Astronomy Department has offices at 60 Garden Street and 160 Concord Avenue (M Building), Cambridge, MA.
Public Transportation
Harvard Station: The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is about a half-mile and a 15-minute walk west of Harvard Square. Leave the Harvard Station by the Church Street exit, turn right on Massachusetts Ave., then left on Garden Street at the Cambridge Common. Bear right after the Sheraton-Commander Hotel, and the CfA is another two blocks on the left.
Porter Station: walk down Massachusetts Avenue back toward Harvard Square, 3 blocks, turn right on Linnaean Street and keep walking (6 blocks) straight on into the CfA's entrance driveway.
From the bus or trolley: Take the 74 or 78 bus or 72 trackless trolley from the lower level of Harvard Station and ask to be let off at Manassas Street.
From the Airport: Take the Silver Line to South Station. Transfer to the Redline Inbound train towards Alewife. Fare is $1.75 and you can pay with cash on the bus. Exit at either Porter Square or Harvard Square and follow directions above. There are taxi stands in Harvard Square.
Taxi fare from the airport to the CfA is $40-$50.
Note: On the MBTA trains Inbound means towards Park Street Station.
By Car
From the northwest: Take Route 2 to the Alewife-Concord Rotary, follow Concord Avenue into Cambridge and cross Huron Avenue, turn left on Madison Street and then right into the CfA's rear parking lot.
From Boston or to the south: Take Storrow or Memorial Drives to the Harvard Square exit (JFK Street), continue through the Square and up Mass. Ave. to turn left at Linnaean Street, which intersects Garden Street right at the front entrance driveway of the CfA.
From the north: Take 93 South to Memorial Drive and follow directions from above. From the west: Take the Mass. Turnpike (US 90) to the Allston-Cambridge exit, cross the Charles River, and turn left on Memorial Drive immediately over the River Street Bridge. Then follow directions from above.
Parking
You may purchase a parking pass from the Harvard College Observatory business office if you want to park in the lot at 60 Garden Street during the day. The HCO business office is located at B-115. Parking is $4.00 for two hours, $8.00 for four hours, or $13.00 for all day.
If you are visiting 160 Concord Avenue you may purchase a parking pass from Muriel Hodges in room M-333. Passes are $7.00 for half day and $13.00 for full day.
Non-resident street parking is available on Huron Avenue and Sherman Street.
History
Harvard Physics PhDs with Astronomy Advisors
List of Chairs of Astronomy and Directors of HCO ( 
heads_of_astrondepthco.pdf )
Astronomy Alumni
Click on the name of the alumni for most recent web link. Please contact us with any corrections.
PhD Recipients and Advisors
| Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena* | 1925 | (Deceased) Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University (bio) | |
| Hogg, Frank Scott | 1929 | (Deceased) University of Toronto | |
| Vyssotsky, Emma T.R. Williams* | 1930 | (Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Virginia | |
| Hogg, Helen Battles Sawyer* | 1931 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | (Deceased) University of Toronto |
| Robinson, Limmye Vernon | 1931 | (Deceased) Variable Stars author | |
| Anger Rieke, Carol Jane* | 1932 | John H. Van Vleck | (Deceased) Instructor in Mathematics, South Suburban College, So. Holland, Illinois |
| Millman, Peter MacKenzie | 1932 | (Deceased) NRC | |
| Andrews, Loring Beal | 1933 | Bart Bok | |
| Calder, William Alexander | 1933 | Harlow Shapley | (Deceased) Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Agnes Scott College |
| Lindsay, Eric Merwin | 1934 | Harlow Shapley | (Deceased) Director of Armagh Observatory, Ireland, Founder Irish Astronomical Journal |
| Miller, Freeman Devold | 1934 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Michigan |
| Sayer, Arthur Robert | 1935 | Donald Menzel | Northwestern University |
| McCuskey, Sidney Wilcox | 1936 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Case Western Reserve University |
| Seyfert, Carl Kennan | 1936 | Harlow Shapley | (Deceased) Director, Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University |
| Dimitroff, George Zakharieff | 1937 | (Deceased) co-author of Harvard Book on Astronomy: instrumentation; Boston U.; Dartmouth | |
| Edmondson, Frank Kelley | 1937 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Indiana University Emeritus Professor |
| Greenstein, Jesse Leonard | 1937 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) California Institute of Technology |
| Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit* | 1938 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Director, Maria Mitchell Observatory and research astronomer at Yale |
| Cuffey, James | 1938 | Harlow Shapley, Bart Bok | (Deceased), Indiana University, NM State Univ. |
| Evans, John Wainwright Jr. | 1938 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Director, Sacramento Peak Observatory |
| Goldberg, Leo | 1938 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) Director, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ |
| Watson, Fletcher Guard Jr. | 1938 | Harlow Shapley | (Deceased) Harvard Ed. School/Harvard Project Physics |
| Norman, Daniel | 1939 | ||
| Patterson, Florence Shirley | 1941 | Harlow Shapley | (Deceased) Buffalo, Wellesley, Carnegie, Trinity |
| Woodward, Edith Jones* | 1941 | Harlow Shapley, Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin | (Deceased) Prof of Astronomy, Mt. Holyoke, Hunter, William Paterson College |
| Risley, Alice Marguerite* | 1942 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Randolph-Macon College; Acting Director, Maria Mitchell |
| Lichtenstein, Pearl (Rubinstein)* | 1942 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Baker, James Gilbert | 1942 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) Harvard College Observatory |
| Steel, Helen Rawson* | 1943 | Donald Menzel | |
| Aller, Lawrence Hugh | 1943 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, UCLA |
| MacRae, Donald Alexander | 1943 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, U. of Toronto, & Director, David Dunlop Observatory |
| Miller, Walter John S.J. | 1943 | Harlow Shapley, Bart Bok | (Deceased) |
| Roberts, Walter Orr | 1943 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) National Center for Atmospheric Research (Founding Director) |
| Heyden, Francis Joseph | 1944 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Georgetown University |
| Petrie, William | 1944 | Donald Menzel | |
| Cunningham, Leland E. | 1946 | Fred Whipple | (Deceased) Aberdeen Proving Ground; U. California, Berkeley |
| Scott, Roderic McDonald | 1946 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) Chief Scientist, Perkin-Elmer |
| van Dien, Elsa* | 1947 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) Bosscha Observatory |
| Jaffe (Walther), Miriam Elaine* | 1948 | Bart Bok | (Deceased), Prof. of Astronomy, Purdue |
| Ashbrook, Joseph | 1948 | Bart Bok, Cecelia Payne-Gaposckin | (Deceased), editor-in-chief, Sky & Telescope Magazine |
| Thomas, Richard Nelson | 1948 | Donald Menzel, Fred Whipple | (Deceased) |
| Bauer, Carl August | 1949 | Fred Whipple | Penn State |
| Fleischer, Robert | 1949 | (Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, RPI; NSF Program Director for Solar-Terrestrial Research | |
| Hamid, Salah El-Din | 1950 | Fred Whipple | (Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Cairo, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Layzer, David | 1950 | Donald Menzel | Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Harvard University |
| Linnell, Albert Paul | 1950 | Bart Bok | Prof. of Astronomy, U. Washington |
| Wyatt, Stanley Porter | 1950 | Bart Bok, Harlow Shapley | (Deceased) Faculty, U. Illinois |
| Bell, Barbara* | 1951 | Donald Menzel | Astronomer, Harvard College Observatory (retired) |
| Warwick, James Walter | 1951 | Fred Whipple | University of Colorado, Retired, PI for radio astronomy experiment on Voyager |
| Naqvi, Ali-Mehdi | 1952 | Donald Menzel | |
| Bappu, Manali Kallat Vainu | 1952 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) Director, Kodaikanal Observatory, Indian Institute for Astrophysics, IAU president |
| Warwick, Constance Sawyer* | 1952 | Bart Bok | Scientist, NIST |
| van Wijk, Uco | 1952 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Assistant Professor, Princeton |
| King, Ivan | 1952 | Harlow Shapley | Research Professor, University of Washington |
| Donn, David Bertram | 1953 | B. Bok, F. Whipple | (Deceased) NASA |
| Zirin, Harold | 1953 | Philip M. Morse (MIT) | (Deceased) Professor Astronomy, Caltech |
| Hoag, Arthur Allen | 1953 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Director, Lowell Observatory |
| de Jonge, Herman Albert Joost | 1954 | Bart Bok | |
| Heeschen, David Sutphin | 1955 | Bart Bok | (Deceased) Director, NRAO |
| Smith, Harlan James | 1955 | (Deceased) University of Texas | |
| Wyller, Arne August | 1955 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased), Director of the Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy |
| Whitney, Charles Allen | 1955 | R. N. Thomas | Astronomer, Harvard University, Retired |
| Smith, Elske van Panhuys* | 1956 | Bart Bok | Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Smith, Henry Joseph | 1956 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposckin | (Deceased) |
| Lilley, Arthur Edward | 1956 | Bart Bok | Professor Emeritus, Harvard University |
| McCrosky, Richard Eugene | 1956 | (Deceased) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | |
| Orrall, Frank Quimby | 1956 | (Deceased), Professor of Astronomy, University of Hawaii | |
| Matthews, Thomas Arnold | 1956 | Bart Bok | University of Maryland, Radio astronomer who found the position of 3C 48 in 1960 |
| Menon, Thuppalay Kochu Govinda | 1956 | Bart Bok | Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of British Columbia |
| Zirker, Jack Bernard | 1957 | Emeritus Staff, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM | |
| Kameny, Franklin Edward | 1958 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | (Deceased); Georgetown; US Army Mapping; gay-rights advocate/marriage equality advocate |
| Wade, Campbell Marion | 1958 | Bart Bok, David Layzer | National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Retired |
| Kassim, May Arif Kaftan* | 1958 | Bart Bok, Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| Dieter Conklin, Nanielou* | 1958 | Thomas Gold | University Of California |
| Howard, William Eager III | 1958 | B. Bok, H. Weaver, T.K. Menon | USRA, Retired |
| Wright, Frances Woodworth* | 1958 | Fred Whipple | (Deceased) Lecturer, Harvard University |
| Drake, Frank Donald | 1958 | Bart Bok, Thomas Gold, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Professor Emeritus, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Varsavsky, Carlos Manuel | 1959 | David Layzer | (Deceased) Institute of Radio Astronomy, Argentina |
| Hodge, Paul William | 1960 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Professor, Astronomy/Editor of Astrophysical Journal, University of Washington |
| Davis, Robert James | 1960 | B. Bok, T. Gold | Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Dunn, Richard Brandner | 1961 | (Deceased) Astronomer, Sacramento Peak Observatory | |
| Southworth, Richard Boynton | 1961 | Fred Whipple | Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Teske, Richard Glenn | 1962 | Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of Michigan | |
| Gingerich, Owen | 1962 | Charles Whitney | Senior Astronomer Emeritus, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Professor Emeritus, Astronomy and of the History of Science, Harvard University |
| Young, Andrew Tipton | 1962 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | San Diego State University |
| Epstein, Eugene | 1962 | A. Edward Lilley | Treasurer, Am. Astronomical Soc. of the Pacific, retired from Aerospace Corp. |
| Franklin, Fred A. | 1962 | A. Cook | Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Godfredsen, Eugene Alan | 1963 | David Layzer | |
| Guess, Arnold Willard | 1964 | Donald Menzel | (Deceased) engineer at McDonnell Douglas and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Muhleman, Duane Owen | 1964 | Fred Whipple | Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences, Caltech |
| Stothers, Richard Blair | 1964 | Leo Goldberg | (Deceased) Advisor, Post Doc Program, NASA |
| Huguenin, George Richard | 1964 | A. Edward Lilley | (Deceased) Prof. radio astronomy, U Mass Amherst; founded Millitech |
| Stienon, Francis Michael | 1964 | William Liller | Assistant Professor, Smith College; Four Colleges Observatory |
| Strom, Stephen Eric | 1964 | William Liller | (Retired) Scientific Staff, NOAO, Tucson (Photographer) |
| Wanner, James Franklin | 1964 | Morton Roberts | |
| Chapman, Robert D. | 1965 | William Liller | Software Engineer, Microsoft, Retired |
| Burke, James Anthony | 1965 | David Layzer | Assoc. Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria, Canada |
| Pollack, James B. | 1965 | Carl Sagan | (Deceased) NASA/Ames Research Center |
| Kalnajs, Agris | 1965 | David Layzer | Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University |
| Gundermann, Ellen | 1965 | A. Edward Lilley | Staff, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Caltech, Retired |
| Usher, Peter | 1966 | Charles Whitney | Professor Emeritus, Penn State U. |
| Sacks, William Michael | 1966 | David Layzer | Radiologist (retired), Tuscon |
| Dolan, Joseph Francis | 1966 | Giovanni. Fazio | Astrophysicist, NASA |
| Rich, John Charles | 1967 | Leo Goldberg | Retired General; retired head of Perkin-Elmer |
| Walker, Russell Glenn | 1967 | Carl Sagan | General Manager/Astronomer, Vanguard Research |
| Newsom, Gerald Higley | 1968 | Leo Goldberg | Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University |
| Regas, James Leon | 1968 | Richard Goody | Professor, Geosciences, California State University at Chico |
| Stecker, Floyd William | 1968 | Giovanni Fazio | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Doyle, Holly Thomis | 1968 | David Layzer | Inventor |
| Doyle, Robert Ogden | 1968 | Leo Goldberg | CEO, skyBuilders.com |
| Dupree, Andrea Kundsin | 1968 | Leo Goldberg | Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Kaufman, Michele | 1968 | David Layzer | Academic Program Specialist, Ohio State University |
| Kopp, Roger Alan | 1968 | Charles Whitney | Retired, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Linsky, Jeffrey Lawrence | 1968 | Owen Gingerich | Research Professor, University of Colorado |
| Shu, Frank Hsia-San | 1968 | C. C. Lin (MIT) | Professor of Astronomy, University of California, San Diego |
| Silk, Joseph Ivor | 1968 | David Layzer | Professor of Astronomy, Oxford University |
| Taylor, Joseph Hooten Jr. | 1968 | Alan Maxwell | Professor of Physics, Princeton University |
| Zuckerman, Benjamin Michael | 1968 | A. Edward Lilley | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA |
| Mertz, Lawrence Nelson | 1969 | Robert. Noyes, W. Parkinson | (Deceased) Founder Digiphase, Researcher Lockheed |
| Peterson, Deane Millar | 1969 | Wolfgang Kalkofen | Emeritus Assoc. Professor of Astronomy, State University of NY at Stony Brook |
| Ball, John Allen | 1969 | Alan Barrett (MIT) | Research Scientist, MIT/Haystack Observatory, Retired |
| Blanchard, Paul Adam II | 1969 | Alex Dalgarno | |
| Morrison, David Douglas | 1969 | Carl Sagan | Director of Astrobiology & Space Research, NASA Ames Research Center |
| Pasachoff, Jay Myron | 1969 | Eugene Avrett, Robert Noyes | Professor of Astronomy, Williams College |
| Tech, Jack Laurence | 1969 | Leo Goldberg | (Deceased) |
| Cheng, Chung-Chieh | 1970 | Giovanni Fazio | (Deceased) NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Latham, David Winslow | 1970 | Owen Gingerich | Senior Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Arons, Jonathan | 1970 | Richard McCray | Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley |
| Downes, Dennis Neil | 1970 | Alan Maxwell | Dept. Head, Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique, France |
| Hall, Donald Norman Blake | 1970 | Robert Noyes | Astronomer, Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo; |
| Simon, Theodore | 1970 | Eugene Avrett | Astronomer, IfA, University of Hawaii, Honolulu |
| Veverka, Joseph Frank | 1970 | Fred Whipple | Professor, Astronomy Department, Cornell University |
| Burke, John Robert | 1971 | David Layzer | Professor of Physics, San Francisco State University |
| Grindlay, Jonathan Ellis | 1971 | Giovanni Fazio | Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University |
| Hoffman, Jeffrey Alan | 1971 | Henry Helmken | Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, MIT, NASA Astronaut on Hubble Space Telescope upgrade mission |
| Jura, Michael Alan | 1971 | Alex Dalgarno | Professor of Atronomy & Physics, UCLA |
| Leibacher, John William | 1971 | Charles Whitney | Astronomer, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ |
| Leibowitz, Elia Menachem | 1971 | Leo Goldberg | Professor of Astronomy, Sackler Institute, University of Tel Aviv |
| Cesarsky, Catherine Jeanne | 1972 | Giovanni Fazio | CEA Saclay, (former) Director-General, European Southern Observatory, Germany |
| Cesarsky, Diego Alberto | 1972 | Leo Goldberg | Viroflay, France |
| Elliot, James Ludlow | 1972 | Giovanni Fazio | (Deceased) Professor of Physics, MIT & Director of George W. Wallace Jr. Observatory, MIT |
| Faber, Sandra Moore | 1972 | I. J. Danziger | Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Chaisson, Eric Joseph | 1972 | A. Edward Lilley | Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University |
| Chipman, Eric George | 1972 | Eugene Avrett | NOAA, Solar X-ray Imager on GOES |
| Kalaghan, Paul Michael | 1972 | Alex Dalgarno | Vice Provost, Northeastern University |
| Schwarz, Joseph Hilary Samuel | 1972 | Alex Dalgarno | Software Developer/Manager, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany |
| Vernazza, Jorge Enrique | 1972 | Robert Noyes | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Wood, Arthur Thompson Jr. | 1972 | Robert Noyes | Senior Software Developer, Washington, DC |
| Carbon, Duane Francis | 1973 | Owen Gingerich | Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center |
| Chromey, Frederick Rao | 1973 | I. J. Danziger | Professor of Astronomy, Director of Vassar College Observatory |
| Forman, William Richard | 1973 | William Liller | Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Kurucz, Robert Louis | 1973 | Eugene Avrett | Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Stefanik, Robert Phillip | 1973 | Wolfgang Kalkofen | Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Allen, John William | 1973 | Leo Goldberg | Professor of Physics, Boise State University |
| Munro, Richard Harding | 1973 | George Withbroe | Ball Aerospace |
| Lathrop, John Douglass | 1974 | David Layzer | Williams College, then Navy Research |
| Peterson, Ruth Carol | 1974 | Eugene Avrett | Research Associate, Lick Observatory; President and CEO, Astrophysical Advances, Palo Alto, CA |
| Wiesel, William Edward | 1974 | Michael Lecar | Aerospace Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology |
| Forman, Christine Jones | 1974 | William Liller | Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Keppel, Jean (Warren) (Goad) | 1974 | Jay Frogel | Educator, Yavapai College |
| Onello, Joseph Stanley | 1974 | Alex Dalgarno | Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY, Cortland, Visiting Research Professor, Cornell, Retired, Research Adjunct, University of Montana |
| Cravens, Thomas | 1975 | Alex Dalgarno | Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas |
| Black, John H. | 1975 | Alex Dalgarno | Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Goad, Larry E. | 1975 | Alex Dalgarno | Scientist, Litton Itek Optical Systems |
| Lada, Charles | 1975 | A. Edward Lilley | Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Zeilik , Michael | 1975 | Alex Dalgarno | (Retired) Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of New Mexico |
| Rosenberg, Marlene | 1976 | G. Kalman | Researcher, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego |
| Wright, Edward L. | 1976 | Giovanni Fazio | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA |
| Aaronson, Marc | 1977 | Giovanni Fazio | (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona |
| Mariska, John | 1977 | George Withbroe | Research Professor, George Mason University |
| Perrenod, Steven C. | 1977 | George Field | Industry, Orion Marketing |
| Hartquist, Thomas | 1978 | Alex Dalgarno | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK |
| Carney, Bruce | 1978 | William Liller | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina |
| DeCampli, William | 1978 | A.G.W. Cameron | Faculty, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania |
| Knobloch, Edgar | 1978 | David Layzer | Professor of Physics, Berkeley |
| Liebovitch, Larry | 1978 | Myron Lecar, George. Rybicki, C.C. Lin | Prof. of Physics; Dean, Div. of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Queens College, CUNY |
| Rodriguez, Luis | 1979 | Eric Chaisson | Professor of Astronomy, Institute de Astronomia/UNAM |
| Shapiro, Paul | 1979 | George Field | Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas |
| Elmegreen, Debra | 1979 | William Liller | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Vassar College, former president, AAS |
| Butler, Scott E. | 1979 | Alex Dalgarno | Stockbroker, Price & Marshall Inc. |
| Baliunas, Sallie | 1980 | Andrea Dupree | (Retired) Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Leach, Robert | 1980 | Herbert Gursky | Staff Scientist, Astronomy Dept., San Diego State |
| Stier, Mark | 1980 | Giovanni Fazio | Program Manager/Principal Scientist, Raytheon Optical Systems |
| Rice, Walter L. | 1980 | Stephen Strom, John Huchra | (Deceased) |
| Topka, Kenneth P. | 1980 | Paul Gorenstein | Solar Physics Research Corp., Palo Alto, CA |
| Vishniac, Ethan | 1980 | William Press | Prof. of Physics & Astronomy; Editor-in-Chief, McMaster Univ.; Astrophysical Journal |
| Feigelson, Eric | 1980 | Ricardo Giacconi | Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn. State |
| Jaffe, Daniel | 1981 | Giovanni Fazio | Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas |
| Roberge, Wayne | 1981 | Alex Dalgarno | Professor of Astrophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Odenwald, Sten | 1982 | Giovanni Fazio | NASA's GSFC contractor, education, Astronomy Cafe (astronomycafe.net) |
| Halpern, Jules | 1982 | Jonathan Grindlay | Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University |
| Pryor, Carlton | 1982 | Michael Lecar | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers Univsity |
| Lugger, Phyllis | 1982 | George Field | Professor of Astronomy, Indiana University |
| Hertz, Paul | 1983 | Jonathan Grindlay | Senior Scientist, Office of Space Research, NASA |
| Garay, Guido | 1983 | James Moran | Professor of Astronomy, University of Chile |
| Marshall, Herman | 1983 | Harvey Tananbaum | Research Physicist, MIT |
| Beers, Timothy | 1983 | Margaret Geller | Director, NOAO |
| McMillan, Stephen L. | 1983 | Alan Lightman | Professor of Physics & Astomospheric Science, Drexel University |
| Vrtilek, Jan | 1983 | Nathaniel Carleton | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Berger, Mitchell | 1984 | George Field | Professor of Mathematics, University of Exeter |
| Cruz-Gonzales, Irene | 1984 | John Huchra | Professor of Astronomy, Institute de Astronomia, UNAM |
| Schmitt, Jurgen | 1984 | R. Rosner | Professor, University of Hamburg |
| Bookbinder, Jay | 1985 | Leon Golub | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Brainerd, Jerome J. | 1985 | Donald Lamb | NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |
| Connor, Brian J. | 1985 | A. Edward Lilley | BC Consulting, New Zealand |
| Johnson, Bettye | 1985 | Peter Smith | Physicist, NIST |
| Molnar, Lawrence | 1985 | Mark Reid | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Calvin College |
| Popp, Bruce | 1985 | Robert Rosner | ATA Certified Translator, Bien Fait Translation and Patent Services |
| Tresch Fienberg, Richard | 1985 | Giovanni Fazio | Former Editor in Chief, Sky & Telescope Magazine; AAS Press Officer |
| Fushiki, Ikko | 1986 | Donald Lamb | Ink Development Corp., San Mateo, CA |
| Madejski, Grzegorz | 1986 | Daniel Schwartz | Staff Physicist, Kavli Institute, Stanford University |
| Postman, Marc | 1986 | Margaret Geller | Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Spergel, David | 1986 | George Field, William Press | Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University Observatory |
| Zdziarski, Andrezej | 1986 | Alan Lightman | Professor of Astronomy, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland |
| Bailyn, Charles | 1987 | Jonathan Grindlay | Professor of Astronomy, Yale University |
| Chapman, Giles | 1987 | Margaret Geller | Computer Co., England |
| Garcia, Michael | 1987 | Jonathan Grindlay | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Neufeld, David | 1987 | Alex Dalgarno | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, John Hopkins University |
| Keto, Eric | 1987 | Paul Ho | Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Escalante, Vladmir | 1988 | Alex Dalgarno | Researcher, Institute of Astronomy (UNAM), Mexico |
| Jeffrey, William A. | 1988 | Robert Rosner | Director, HRL Laboratories |
| Wang, Boqi | 1989 | George Field | Merrill Lynch, New York |
| Deutsch, Lynn | 1990 | Giovanni Fazio | (Deceased) Assistant Professor in Astronomy, Boston University |
| Strachan, Leonard | 1990 | John Kohl | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Croswell, Ken | 1990 | David Latham | Author, Berkeley, California |
| Greenhill, Lincoln | 1990 | James Moran | Research Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Merrifield, Michael | 1990 | Steve Kent | Professor of Astronomy, Univeristy of Nottingham, England |
| Ladd, Edwin | 1991 | Phil Myers | Associate Professor of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA |
| Sams, Bruce | 1991 | Costas Papaliolios | President, Optimabit GmbH |
| Davies, Melvyn | 1992 | Willy Benz | Professor, Lund Observatory, Sweden |
| Herant, Marc | 1992 | Willy Benz | Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University |
| Smith, Robert | 1992 | Robert Kirshner | Director, Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile |
| Yun, Min | 1992 | Paul Ho | Professor, Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts |
| Carroll, Sean | 1993 | George Field | Senior Research Associate, California Institute of Technology |
| Chernin, Lawrence | 1993 | Collin Masson | Staff Engineer, MIPS Technologies, Mountain View, CA |
| Schmidt, Brian P. | 1993 | Robert Kirshner | Astronomer, Australian National University |
| Vogeley, Michael | 1993 | Margaret Geller | Professor of Physics, Drexel University. |
| Zabludoff, Ann | 1993 | Margaret Geller | Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona |
| Cool, Adrienne | 1994 | Jonathan Grindlay | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University |
| Garretson, Dan | 1994 | E. Carlson, George Field | Financial Industry, Boston |
| Marzke, Ronald | 1994 | John Huchra | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, San Francisco State |
| Blackman, Eric | 1995 | George Field | Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Rochester |
| Campbell, Robert | 1995 | Irwin Shapiro | Head of Science Operations, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe |
| Dell'Antonio, Ian | 1995 | Margaret Geller | Assistant Professor, Brown University |
| Hix, William | 1995 | Friedrich Thielemann | Associate Professor, University of Tennessee |
| Mohr, Joseph | 1995 | Margaret Geller | Professor of Physics, Ludwig Maximillans University |
| Pyne, Ted | 1995 | Mark Birkinshaw | Global Head of Strategy, SAC Capital Advisors |
| Wallington, Sylvanie | 1995 | Ramesh Narayan | Cambridge, MA |
| Wiseman, Jennifer | 1995 | Paul Ho | Scientist, NASA/GSFC Headquarters |
| Riess, Adam | 1996 | Robert Kirshner | Prof. of Astronomy, Johns Hopkins Univ., STSci Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011 |
| Kuhn, Olga | 1996 | Martin Elvis | Instrument Support Scientist, LBT Obseervatory, University of Arizona |
| Zhang, Qizhou | 1997 | Paul Ho | Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Krockenberger, Martin | 1997 | Robert Noyes | Research Scientist, Xerox PARC |
| Herrnstein, James | 1997 | James Moran | Renaissance Technologies, NY |
| Yan, Min | 1997 | Alex Dalgarno | Goldman Sachs, New York |
| Eikenberry, Steve | 1997 | Giovanni Fazio | Professor of Astronomy, U. of Florida |
| Mahadevan, Rohan | 1998 | Ramesh Narayan | VP & General Manager, Asia, PayPal |
| Kawamura, Jonathan | 1998 | Raymond Blundell | Sr. Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Lab |
| Mardones, Diego | 1998 | Phillip Myers | Professor of Astronomy, University of Chile |
| Haiman, Zoltan | 1998 | Abraham Loeb | Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University |
| Reisenfeld, Dan | 1998 | John Kohl | Associate Professor of Astronomy, U. of Montana |
| Esin, Ann | 1998 | Ramesh Narayan | Associate Professor of Astronomy, Harvey Mudd College |
| Kleyna, Jan | 1999 | Margaret Geller | Post-Doc, Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii |
| Grogin, Norman | 1999 | Margaret Geller | Staff Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Barton, Elizabeth | 1999 | Margaret Geller | Researcher, Renaissance Technologies, NY |
| Quataert, Eliot | 1999 | Ramesh Narayan | Associate Professor of Astronomy, U. of California, Berkeley |
| Woods, Eric | 1999 | Abraham Loeb | Visiting Asst. Prof. |
| Seager, Sara | 1999 | Dimitar Sasselov | Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Romanowsky, Aaron | 1999 | Christopher Kochanek | Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, San Jose State University |
| Allen, Lorraine | 2000 | Shaddia Habbal | Assoc. Prof. of Physics, US Coast Guard Academy |
| Heyrovsky, David | 2000 | Dimitar Sasselov | Lecturer, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague |
| Jayawardhana, Ray | 2000 | Lee Hartman, Giovanni Fazio | Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, U. of Toronto |
| Koranyi, Daniel | 2000 | Margaret Geller | Renaissance Technologies, NY |
| Sobczak, Gregory | 2000 | Jeffrey McClintock | Finance |
| Aguirre, Anthony | 2001 | Lars Hernquist | Associate Professor of Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Bloser, Peter | 2001 | Jonathan Grindlay | Research Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire |
| Barmby, Pauline | 2001 | John Huchra | Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario |
| Charbonneau, David | 2001 | Robert Noyes | Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University |
| Chou, Hongsong | 2001 | George Field | Consultant, McKinsey & Co. |
| Mahdavi, Andisheh | 2001 | Margaret Geller | Assistant Professor of Physics, San Francisco State University |
| Ransom, Scott | 2001 | Giovanni Fazio | Astronomer, NRAO, Charlottesville/Adjunct Prof., Astronomy, UVA |
| Macri, Lucas | 2001 | John Huchra | Assistant Professor, Texas A & M |
| Arce, Hector G. | 2001 | Alyssa Goodman | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale |
| Brown, Warren | 2002 | Daniel Fabricant, Margaret Geller | Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Jha, Saurabh | 2002 | Robert Kirshner | Assistant Professor in Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers |
| Furlanetto, Steven | 2003 | Avi Loeb | Associate Professor, UCLA |
| Herrnstein, Robin | 2003 | Paul Ho | |
| Lloyd, Don | 2003 | Lars Hernquist | Research Staff, Institute of Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA |
| Rines, Kenneth | 2003 | Margaret Geller | Assistant Professor of Astronomy & Physics, Western Washington University |
| Sokasian, Aaron | 2003 | Lars Hernquist | Finance, Tachyon Capital Management |
| Wang, Xiohu | 2003 | Avi Loeb | Associate, Lehman Brothers, NY |
| Harvey, Daniel | 2003 | David Wilner | Research Scientist, Tachyon Capital Management |
| Chatterjee, Pinaki | 2003 | Lars Hernquist, Avi Loeb | Algorithmic trader, Bank of America |
| Fish, Vincent | 2004 | Mark Reid | Staff Scientist, Haystack Observatory |
| Heinke, Craig | 2004 | Jonathan Grindlay | Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Alberta |
| Bragg, Ann | 2004 | Scott Kenyon | Assistant Professor of Physics, Director of Anderson-Hancock Planetarium, Marietta College |
| Jang-Condell, Hannah | 2004 | Dimitar Sasselov | Asstistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Wyoming |
| Sun, Ming | 2005 | William Forman, Stephen Murray | Scientist, Eureka Scientific |
| Bonanos, Alceste | 2005 | Krzysztof Stanek | Scientific Staff, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens |
| Sollins, Peter | 2005 | Qizhou Zhang, Paul Ho | Lawyer, Associate, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston |
| Robertson, Brant | 2006 | Lars Hernquist | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona |
| Greene, Jenny | 2006 | John Huchra | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Princeton |
| Schnee, Scott | 2006 | Alyssa Goodman | Asst. Scientist, NRAO, Charlottesville |
| Marrone, Daniel | 2006 | James Moran, Raymond Blundell | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona |
| Kondratko, Paul | 2007 | Lincoln Greenhill | Goldman Sachs, London |
| Westover, Michael | 2007 | John Huchra | McKinsey & Co. Investments, Seattle |
| Modjaz, Maryam | 2007 | Robert Kirshner | Assistant Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Kallivayalil, Nitya | 2007 | Charles Alcock | Prize Fellow, Yale |
| Gelfand, Joseph | 2007 | Bryan Gaensler/Patrick Slane | Asst. Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Bogdanov,Slavko | 2007 | Jonathan Grindlay | Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University |
| Hickox, Ryan | 2007 | Ramesh Narayan | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Dartmouth College |
| Devor, Jonathan | 2008 | David Charbonneau | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tel Aviv |
| Hopkins, Philip | 2008 | Lars Hernquist | Miller Fellow, Berkeley |
| Cooper, Randall | 2008 | Ramesh Narayan | Vice President, Goldman Sachs, NYC |
| Battat, James | 2008 | Christopher Stubbs | Asst. Prof. of Physics, Bryn Mawr College |
| Hartman, Joel | 2008 | Matthew Holman | Associate Research Scholar, Princeton, University |
| Lai, Kamson | 2008 | Giovanni Fazio | Post Doc, U. of California, Santa Cruz |
| Knutson, Heather | 2009 | David Charbonneau | Asst. Prof of Planetary Science, Caltech |
| Park, Shinae | 2009 | Giovanni Fazio | Physics Teacher |
| Younger, Joshua | 2009 | Giovanni Fazio | J. P. Morgan, NY |
| McQuinn, Matthew | 2009 | Lars Hernquist | Einstein Fellow, Berkeley |
| Blake, Cullen | 2009 | David Charbonneau/David Latham | Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Miller-Ricci, Eliza | 2009 | Dimitar Sasselov |
Assistant Professor of Physics, Grinnell College |
| Koenig, Xavier | 2009 | Lori Allen | Astrophysicist, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt |
| Penev, Kaloyan | 2009 | Dimitar Sasselov | Associate Research Scholar, Princeton |
| Foster, Jonathan | 2009 | Alyssa Goodman | YCAA Fellow, Yale |
| Woods, Deborah | 2009 | Daniel Fabricant | Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre | 2010 | Lars Hernquist | Miller Post Doc, University of Califoria, Berkeley |
| Nantais, Julie | 2010 | John Huchra | Post Doc, University Concepcion, Santiago, Chile |
| Fuentes, Cesar | 2010 | Matthew Holman | Post Doc, Northern Arizona University |
| Munoz, Joseph | 2010 | Avi Loeb | Post Doc, UCLA |
| Hughes, Meredith | 2010 | David Wilner | Asst. Prof. of Astronomy, Wesleyan College |
| O'Leary, Ryan | 2010 | Avi Loeb | Einstein Fellow, Berkeley |
| Steinhardt, Charles | 2010 | Martin Elvis | Post Doc, University of Tokyo |
| Tchekhovskoi, Alexandre | 2010 | Ramesh Narayan | Post Doc, Princeton |
| Pineda, Jaime | 2010 | Alyssa Goodman | Post Doc, University of Manchester, UK |
| Nutzman, Philip | 2010 | David Charbonneau | Post Doc, Santa Cruz |
| Bush, Stephanie | 2010 | Giovanni Fazio/Lars Hernquist | Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Reading |
| Marcus, Robert | 2011 | Lars Hernquist/Dimitar Sasselov | Systems Engineer, Northrup Grunman |
| Hao, Heng | 2011 | Martin Elvis | Post Doc, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy |
| Neilsen, Joseph | 2011 | Julia Lee | Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University |
| Besla, Gurtina | 2011 | Lars Hernquist | Hubble Fellow, Columbia |
| Shcherbakov, Roman | 2011 | Ramesh Narayan | Hubble Fellow, University of Maryland |
| Tassev, Svetlin | 2011 | Lars Hernquist | Post Doc, Harvard & Princeton |
| Mandel, Kaisey | 2011 | Robert Kirshner | Post Doc, Imperial College, London |
| Mao, Sui Ann | 2011 | Gaensler/Finkbeiner | Jansky Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Hayward, Christopher | 2011 | Lars Hernquist | Post Doc, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies |
| Steiner, James Francis | 2012 | Jeffery McClintock | Hubble Fellow, CFA |
| Friedman, Andrew Samuel | 2012 | Robert Kirshner | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT |
| Blecha, Laura Elizabeth | 2012 | Avi Loeb | Einstein Fellow, University Maryland |
| Su, Meng | 2012 | John Kovac | MIT Pappalardo Fellow in Physics |
| Maruca, Bennett Andrew | 2012 | Justin Kasper | Townes Fellow, Space Science Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
| Ballard, Sarah Ashley | 2012 | David Charbonneau | Sagan Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle |
| Tang, Sumin | 2012 | Josh Grindlay | Visiting Scholar Caltech |
*Radcliffe
Physics PhDs with Astronomy Advisors
| Year | Student | Advisor | Thesis Title | ||||
| 1962 | AVRETT, EUGENE HINTON | Krook | Solutions of the Equation of Radiative Transfer | ||||
| 1965 | RYBICKI, GEORGE BRUNO | Krook | Transfer of Radiation in Stochastic Media | ||||
| 1967 | PALMER, PATRICK EDWARD | Lilley | Radio Frequency Recombination Spectra of Diffuse Nebulae | ||||
| 1968 | HEARN, DAVID RUSSELL | Fazio | A Search for Celestial Sources of Gamma Rays of Energy Greater than 100 MeV | ||||
| 1969 | MILDER, DAVID | Layzer | Rotating Stellar Systems | ||||
| 1969 | RIEKE, GEORGE HENRY | Fazio/Bainbridge** | A Search for Cosmic Gamma Rays by Detection of Atmospheric Cerenkov Radiation | ||||
| 1961 | SNYDER, RALPH BROCKETT | Layzer | Relativistic Energies in Isooelectronic Sequences | ||||
| 1971 | STEPHENS, TIMOTHY LEE, | Dalgarno | Quantum Mechanical Studies of Molecular Hydrogen | ||||
| 1971 | CAVRAK, STEPHEN JAMES JR. | Fazio/Purcell** | The Production of Atmospheric g Rays with Eg> 10 MeV | ||||
| 1972 | HIVELY, RAY MICHAEL | Layzer | Cosmology of a Cold Universe. | ||||
| 1972 | LEVINE, RANDOLPH HERBERT | Layzer | Heating of the Corona by Magnetic Acceleration of Thermal Particles. | ||||
| 1975 | BIENIEK, RONALD JAMES | Dalgarno | Theoretical Studies of Thermal Atomic Collisions Involving Electronic Transitions | ||||
| 1976 | ROSNER, ROBERT | Layzer | Some Aspects of Magnetic Field Dynamics in Astrophysical Plasmas | ||||
| 1979 | DA COSTA, LUIZ ALBERTO NICOLACI | Cameron | Effects of a Central Gas Cloud in Dense Stellar Systems. | ||||
| 1979 | SHORER, PHILIP | Dalgarno | Application of the Relativistic Random-Phase Approximation to the Photoexcitation and Photoionization of Atoms | ||||
| 1985 | BAND, DAVID LOUIS | Grindlay | Non-Thermal Radiation Mechanisms and Processes in SS433 and Active Galactic Nuclei | ||||
| 1985 | KAHN, RONALD NATHAN | Press | Topics in Inflationary Cosmology | ||||
| 1989 | GOODMAN, ALYSSA ANN | Myers/Shapiro | Interstellar Magnetic Fields: An Observational Perspective | ||||
| 1990 | COUGHLIN, KATIE MARY | Thaddeus | Quasi-Periodic Taylor-Couette Flow | ||||
| 1991 | COVAULT, CORBIN EDWARD | Grindlay | The Energenic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment: Instrument Development and Observations of Black Hole Candidates in Binaries | ||||
| 1991 | DIGEL, SETH WILLIAM | Thaddeus | Molecular Clouds in the Distant Outer Galaxy | ||||
| 1991 | ROGERS, ROBERT DERWARD | Press/Field | The Origins of the Cosmic X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Backgrounds | ||||
| 1993 | MOLLAGHABABA, REZA | Thaddeus | Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy of Three Highly Reactive Astrophysical Molecules: SiC, SiO, and C3H2 | ||||
| 1994 | SAVIN, DANIEL WOLF | Kohl | Absolute Measurements of Field Enhanced Dielectronic Recombination and Electron Impact Excitation | ||||
| 1995 | LIN, HUAN | Kirshner | The Las Campanas Redshift Survey | ||||
| 1995 | MANANDHAR, RAJ | Grindlay | Development of a New Detector for Hard X-Ray Observations of Non-Thermal Emission from Low- Mass X-Ray Binaries | ||||
| 1996 | EISENSTEIN, DANIEL | Loeb | Analytical Models for the Gravitational Formation of Objects in the Universe | ||||
| 1996 | LEBACH, DANIEL | Shapiro | Applications of Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry to Tests of General Relativity | ||||
| 1998 | KEETON, CHARLES | Kochanek | Using Gravitational Lenses to Study Galaxires and Cosmology | ||||
| 1999 | PERNA, ROSALBA | Loeb | Theoretical Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts | ||||
| 2000 | DAW, ADRIAN NIGEL | Parkinson/Smith | Measurement of the Radiative Lifetime of the 2s2 2p4 1So Metastable Level of Ne2+; a Study of Forbidden Transitions of Astrophysical Interest | ||||
| 2001 | CHOU, YI | Grindlay | Developments of EXITE2 and Timing Analysis of Ultra-Compact X-ray Binaries | ||||
| 2001 | FOX, DAVID CHARLES | Loeb | The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies | ||||
| 2002 | OZEL, FERYAL | Narayan | The Effects of Strong Magnetic and Gravitational Fields on Emission Properties of Neutron Stars | ||||
| 2002 | WONG, GLENN PATRICK | Shapiro | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments Using Laser-Polarized Noble Gas | ||||
| 2002 | JANZEN, PAUL HENRY | Kohl/Horowitz** | An Experiment to Measure Electron Impact Excitation of Ions that have Metastable States | ||||
| 2005 | ZHU, CHENG | Dalgarno/Lukin** | Gas Phase and Molecular Process | ||||
| 2006 | BABICH, DANIEL MICHAEL | Loeb | Cosmological Non-Gaussianity and Reionization | ||||
| 2007 | SCHULZ, ALEXIA EIRINN | White/Huth ** | Astrophysical Probes of Dark Energy | ||||
| 2007 | HOFFMAN, LAUREN | Loeb | Orbital Dynamics in Galaxy Mergers | ||||
| 2008 | GARG, ARTI | Stubbs | Microlensing Candidate Selection and Detection Efficiency for the Super MACHO Dark Matter Search | ||||
| 2008 | SHAFEE, REBECCA | Narayan/McClintock | Measuring Black Hole Spin | ||||
| 2009 | HICKEN, MALCOLM | C. Stubbs/R. Kirshner | Doubling the Nearby Supernova Type Ia Sample | ||||
| 2010 | SLATYER, TRACY ROBYN | Finkbeiner | Signatures of a New Force in the Dark Matter Sector | ||||
| 2010 | HIGH, FREDRICK WILLIAM | Stubbs | The Dawn of Wide-Field Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Surveys: Efficient Optical Follow-Up | ||||
| 2010 | GIRASH, JOHN ANDREW | Stubbs/Field | A Fokker-Planck Study of Dense Rotating Stellar Clusters | ||||
| 2013 | VISBAL, ELI | Loeb | |||||
| 2013 | PAN, TONY | Loeb | |||||
*Revised Dec 3, 2008. Does not include thesis students of SAO staff who have Physics Department appointments only.
**Advisor on record in the Physics Department
Astronomy Chairs
Chairs of Harvard Astronomy Department
- Donald Menzel 1945–1949
- Fred Whipple 1949–1956
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1956–1960
- William Liller 1960–1964
- Charles Whitney 1964–1965 (acting)
- William Liller 1965–1966
- Leo Goldberg 1966–1970
- Alexander Dalgarno 1970–1976
- Alastair Cameron 1976–1982
- William Press 1982–1985
- Jonathan Grindlay 1985–1990
- Robert Kirshner 1990–1997
- Ramesh Narayan 1997–2001
- Jonathan Grindlay 2001–2003
- Lars Hernquist 2003–2006
- James Moran 2006–2011
- Abraham Loeb 2011–
Directors of HCO
Directors of HCO
- William Cranch Bond 1839–1859
- George Philips Bond 1859–1865
- Joseph Winlock 1866–1875
- Edward Pickering 1877–1919
- Solon Bailey 1919–1921 (acting)
- Harlow Shapley 1921–1952
- Donald Menzel 1952–1966
- Leo Goldberg 1966–1970
- Alexander Dalgarno 1970–1972 (acting)
- George Field 1972–1983
- Irwin Shapiro 1983–2004
- Charles Alcock 2004–
Prizes and Awards
Student Awards
- Bok Prize
- Fireman Fellowship (Graduate)
- Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize
- Leo Goldberg Prize
- Peirce Fellowship
For Scientific Staff
Bok Prize Recipients
Harvard University Department of Astronomy Bart J. Bok Prize Fund
The gift of an anonymous donor to establish "a Prize Fund in honor of Professor Bart J. Bok, and in his name, the income to be used for a prize to be awarded, preferably biennially, on the recommendation of the Astronomy Department, to a recent holder of a Ph.D. degree in the Physical Sciences from Harvard or Radcliffe who is under 35 years of age, the award to be preferably based upon a doctoral thesis, book, or research paper, in the area of Milky Way research by observational methods." The Bok Prize lecture is usually presented in the spring of the year following the award year.
- Dan Marrone - 2013
- Phil Hopkins - 2012
- Heather Knutson - 2011
- Saurabh Jha - 2010
- Feryal Ozel - 2009
- Jenny Greene - 2008
- Stephen Furlanetto - 2007
- Warren Brown - 2006
- Scott Ransom - 2005
- Eliot Quataert - 2004
- David Charbonneau/Sara Seager - 2003
- Joseph Mohr - 2002
- Adam Riess - 2001
- Brian Schmidt - 2000
- Lincoln Greenhill/James Herrnstein - 1999
- Alyssa Goodman - 1998
- David Neufeld - 1996
- David Spergel - 1994
- Charles Bailyn - 1992
- Lawrence Molnar - 1990
- Ira Wasserman - 1989
- Sallie Baliunas - 1988
- Thomas Hartquist - 1987
- Daniel Jaffe - 1986
- Guido Garay - 1985
- Lennox Cowie - 1984
- Marc Aaronson - 1983
- Charles Lada - 1982
- Michael Jura - 1981
- John Black - 1980
- William Forman/Christine Jones - 1979
- Sandra Faber - 1978
- Eric Chaisson - 1977
- Jonathan Grindlay - 1976
- Joseph Taylor - 1975
- Benjamin Zuckerman - 1974
- Andrea Dupree - 1973
- Frank Shu - 1972
- Stephen Strom - 1971
- Joseph Silk - 1970
- Patrick Palmer - 1969
- Agris Kalnajs - 1968
- Eugene Avrett - 1967
- George Huguenin - 1965
- Paul Hodge - 1962
- David Layzer - 1960
- A. Edward Lilley - 1958
Fireman Fellowship (Graduate)
The gift of Rita S. Fireman to the Harvard College Observatory to establish the Edward L. Fireman Fellowship Fund "in memory of a man who loved his work as an experimental physicist. Then income from this fund is to be used both to conserve the principal and to provide support each year to a worthy graduate student. The funds are to be given at the discretion of the Chairman of the Department of Astronomy, preferably to a doctoral student engaged in experimental work in a field related to nuclear astrophysics. Each student receiving such supplementary funds is to be known as a Fireman Fellow. A biographical sketch on each Fireman Fellow will be provided to me and my children for as long as we so desire."
- Joseph Neilsen - 2011
- Meredith Hughes - 2010
- Heather Knutson - 2009
- James Battat - 2008
- Nitya Kallivayalil/Maryam Modjaz - 2007
- Daniel Marrone - 2006
- Alceste Bonanos - 2005
- Craig Heinke - 2004
- Steven Furlanetto - 2003
- Saurabh Jha - 2002
- Scott Ransom - 2001
- David Charbonneau - 2000
- Eliot Quataert - 1999
- Peter Bloser - 1998
- Steve Eikenberry - 1997
- Jonathan Kawamura - 1996
- Dan Reisenfeld - 1995
- Raph Hix - 1994
Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize
Recipients
- Roger Fu, Firth McEachern - 2009
- Thomas Beatty - 2007
- Ann Marie Cody, Matthew Rigazio - 2004
- Karin Sandstrom - 2003
- Matt Povich - 2000
- Joshua Eisner - 1999
- Joshua Bloom, Geordie Young - 1996
- Andisheh Mahdavi, Sarah Stewart - 1995
Leo Goldberg Prize
Recipients (Undergraduates)
- Meredith MacGregor (Senior)/Marta Bryan & Philip Mocz (Junior) - 2011
- Jordan Bock (Senior)/Meredith MacGregor (Junior) - 2010
- Cole Dutcher (Junior)/Lauren Weiss (Junior) - 2009
- Okacey Abaraoha (Senior)/Kimberly DeRose (Junior) - 2008
- Matthew George (Junior) - 2007
- Peter Williams (Senior) - 2006
- Jonathan Blazek (Junior)/Timothy Morton (Junior) - 2005
- Shazrene Mohamed (Senior)/Michael Papish (Junior) - 2004
- Ann Marie Cody (Senior)/Shazrene Mohamed (Junior) - 2003
- Karin Sandstrom (Senior)/Matthew Rigazio (Junior) - 2002
- Genevieve Graves (Senior)/Ann Marie Cody (Junior) - 2001
- Jacob Taylor - 2000
- Joshua Eisner/Elizabeth Nathan - 1999
- Joshua Eisner/Adam Leroy - 1998
- Alice Shapley - 1997
- Saurabh Jha/Geordie Young (Seniors) - 1996
- Andi Mahdavi - 1995
- Tony Wong - 1994
- David Becker/Christopher Sabbey - 1993
- Lisa Norton - 1991
- Luis Chi Ho - 1990
Peirce Fellowship
Recipients
- Maria Drout - 2011
- Kirit Karkare - 2011
- Courtney Dressing - 2010
- Jason Dittmann - 2010
- Aaron Bray - 2010
- Li Zeng - 2009
- Maxwell Moe - 2009
- Margaret McLean - 2008
- Robert Penna - 2007
- Bennett Maruca, Joseph Neilsen - 2006
- Gurtina Besla, Christopher Hayward - 2005
- Philip Hopkins - 2004
- Kaloyan Penev - 2003
- Andrew Friedman - 2002
For Scientific Staff
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lectures
The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture honors one of the great scientists of the 20th century. With her Ph.D. thesis on the abundance of the elements in stars, Payne-Gaposchkin began to invent observational astrophysics. Over the next five decades, her research covered many important issues in stellar astrophysics, including the evolution of binary and single stars, the structure of pulsating variables, the formation of O stars in the spiral arms of our galaxy, and sequential star formation in the Magellanic clouds. Her monographs inspired several generation of astronomers. And her popular books delighted readers with the wonders of the universe. The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture series was established in October 2000 during the centenary year of her birth. The goal of the series is to remember Payne-Gaposchkin by honoring a modern astrophysicist with broad accomplishments.
Click on the titles for abstracts and videos of the lectures (when available).
| Judith Cohen | 12 May 2011 | 40 Years of Accurate Galactic Stellar Abundances |
| Reinhard Genzel | 13 May 2010 | Formation and Evolution of Massive Galactic Disks at z~1-2 |
| Michael Mayor | 15 May 2008 | Exoplanets: The Road to Earth Twins |
| Martha Haynes | 8 November 2007 | HI Cosmology in the Local Universe with ALFALFA |
| Wendy Freedman | 16 March 2006 | Measuring Cosmological Parameters |
| Ewine van Dishoeck | 13 April 2005 | Ice Cold and Steaming Hot: Spitzer Observations of Gas and Dust in Star- and Planet-Forming Regions |
| Sandra Faber | 27 May 2004 | Galaxy Evolution over the Latter Half of Cosmic History |
| Frank Shu | 30 January 2003 | The Formation of Planetesimals |
| Caty Pilachowski | 9 May 2002 | Heavy Metal from Ancient Superstars |
Sackler Lectures
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy was established in 1992 to bring an outstanding speaker to the Harvard College Observatory.
Click on the titles for abstracts and videos of the lectures (when available).