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Astronomy Alumni

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 Donald Menzel (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, Deceased
  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 (Deceased) Astronomer, Harvard College Observatory
  Warwick, James Walter 1951 Fred Whipple (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, University of Colorado
  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 (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
  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 Fred Whipple (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 Fred Whipple 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 Research Staff, SUNY, Retired
  Dieter Conklin, Nanielou* 1958 Thomas Gold (Deceased) Research Scientist, University Of California, Berkeley
  Howard, William Eager III 1958 B. Bok, H. Weaver, T.K. Menon (Deceased) USRA, (formerly with NSF, NRAO)
  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 Emeritus Professor of Astronomy/Editor of Astrophysical Journal, University of Washington
  Davis, Robert James 1960 B. Bok, T. Gold Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired
  Dunn, Richard Brandner 1961 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Astronomer, Sacramento Peak Observatory
  Southworth, Richard Boynton 1961 Fred Whipple Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  Teske, Richard Glenn 1962 Charles Whitney (Deceased) 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, American Astronomical Society of the Pacific;  Aerospace Corp., Retired
  Franklin, Fred A. 1962 Alan. Cook Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired
  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, Retired
  Kopp, Roger Alan 1968 Charles Whitney (Deceased), Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Linsky, Jeffrey Lawrence 1968 Owen Gingerich Research Professor, University of Colorado
  Shu, Frank Hsia-San 1968 C. C. Lin (MIT) Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, University of California, San Diego
  Silk, Joseph Ivor 1968 David Layzer Professor of Astronomy, Oxford University, Emeritus
  Taylor, Joseph Hooten Jr. 1968 Alan Maxwell Emeritus 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 Digi-phase, 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) (Deceased) Research Scientist, MIT/Haystack Observatory
  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 Department Head, Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique, France, Retired
  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 Emeritus 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 (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy & 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 of Astronomy, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Chaisson, Eric Joseph 1972 A. Edward Lilley Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Retired
  Chipman, Eric George 1972 Eugene Avrett  NOAA
  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, Former 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, Retired
  Stefanik, Robert Phillip 1973 Wolfgang Kalkofen Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  Allen, John William 1973 Leo Goldberg Professor of Physics Emeritus, 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 Emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY, Cortland, Visiting Research Professor, Cornell, 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 Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Retired, Cosmic Light Productions, LLC
  Rosenberg, Marlene 1976 G. Kalman Research Scientist, 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 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

Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Central Florida College of Medicine

  Knobloch, Edgar 1978 David Layzer Professor of Physics, University of California, 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, Mexico
  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 Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Retired)
  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, McMaster Univ.; Editor-in-Chief, Astrophysical Journal
  Feigelson, Eric 1980 Ricardo Giacconi Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn. State
  Jaffe, Daniel 1981 Giovanni Fazio Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas and Vice President for Research
  Roberge, Wayne 1981 Alex Dalgarno Professor of Astrophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Odenwald, Sten 1982 Giovanni Fazio Professor of Astronomy, Catholic University; Director of Citizen Science Programs (NASA, Heliophysics Education Consortium); Astrophysicist and Director- NASA SpaceMath@NASA and The Astronomy Café.
  Halpern, Jules 1982 Jonathan Grindlay Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University
  Pryor, Carlton 1982 Michael Lecar Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University
  Lugger, Phyllis 1982 George Field Professor of Astronomy, Indiana University
  Hertz, Paul 1983 Jonathan Grindlay Director of Astrophysics Division, 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 Professor of Astrophysics, Physics Department, University of Notre Dame
  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 Director of Programs and Projects, NASA Ames
  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 Director, Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), Simons Foundation and Chair of the Department and am the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, Princeton
  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 Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters
  Neufeld, David 1987 Alex Dalgarno Professor of Physics & Astronomy, John Hopkins University
  Keto, Eric 1987 Paul Ho Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired
  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 US Naval Research Lab
  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 & Astronomy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  Sams, Bruce 1991 Costas Papaliolios President, OPTIMAbit GmbH
  Davies, Melvyn 1992 Willy Benz Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Lund Observatory, Sweden
  Herant, Marc 1992 Willy Benz Director General of the Rwanda Biomedical Center
  Smith, Robert 1992 Robert Kirshner Director, Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile
  Yun, Min 1992 Paul Ho Professor of Astronomy, 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 Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian National University, Nobel Lauriate, Physics
  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 Professor of Physics, Brown University
  Hix, William 1995 Friedrich Thielemann Group Leader for Theoretical Physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and
Joint Faculty Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee.
  Mohr, Joseph 1995 Margaret Geller Professor of Physics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
  Pyne, Ted 1995 Mark Birkinshaw Global Head of Strategy, SAC Capital Advisors
  Wallington, Sylvanie 1995 Ramesh Narayan Education
  Wiseman, Jennifer 1995 Paul Ho Scientist, NASA/GSFC
  Riess, Adam 1996 Robert Kirshner Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Thomas J Barber of Space Studies, Johns Hopkins Univ., STSci; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011
  Kuhn, Olga 1996 Martin Elvis Instrument Support Scientist, LBT Observatory, University of Arizona
  Zhang, Qizhou 1997 Paul Ho Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  Krockenberger, Martin 1997 Robert Noyes Staff Data Scientist, Genomic Health, San Jose, CA
  Herrnstein, James 1997 James Moran Senior Research Scientist, 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 Senior VP,  PayPal, Asia
  Kawamura, Jonathan 1998 Raymond Blundell Sr. Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Lab
  Mardones, Diego 1998 Phillip Myers Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Chile
  Haiman, Zoltan 1998 Abraham Loeb Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University
  Reisenfeld, Dan 1998 John Kohl Professor of Physics and 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 Director of Data Science, Walmart
  Quataert, Eliot 1999 Ramesh Narayan Thomas A. Alison Chair of Physics, Professor of Astronomy & Physics, University of California, Berkeley
  Woods, Eric 1999 Abraham Loeb Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, SUNY, Albany
  Seager, Sara 1999 Dimitar Sasselov Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology
  Romanowsky, Aaron 1999 Christopher Kochanek Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, San Jose State University
  Allen, Lorraine 2000 Shaddia Habbal Associate Professor of Physics, US Coast Guard Academy
  Heyrovsky, David 2000 Dimitar Sasselov Faculty, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague
  Jayawardhana, Ray 2000 Lee Hartman, Giovanni Fazio Dean of Arts and Science and Professor of Astronomy, Cornell
  Koranyi, Daniel 2000 Margaret Geller Renaissance Technologies, NY
  Sobczak, Gregory 2000 Jeffrey McClintock Head, Financial Engineering, Chicago Trading Company
  Aguirre, Anthony 2001 Lars Hernquist Professor of Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz
  Bloser, Peter 2001 Jonathan Grindlay Research Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire and Space Science Center (EOS)
  Barmby, Pauline 2001 John Huchra Professor, University of Western Ontario
  Charbonneau, David 2001 Robert Noyes Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
  Chou, Hongsong 2001 George Field Consultant, McKinsey & Co., Lectuerer, Financial Mathematics, University of Chicago
  Mahdavi, Andisheh 2001 Margaret Geller Chief Data Scientist, States Title, San Fransico
  Ransom, Scott 2001 Giovanni Fazio Astronomer, NRAO,  and Visiting Research Professor of Astronomy, UVA
  Macri, Lucas 2001 John Huchra  Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy,  and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, Texas A & M
  Arce, Hector G. 2001 Alyssa Goodman Associate Professor of Astronomy, Yale
  Brown, Warren 2002 Daniel Fabricant, Margaret Geller Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  Jha, Saurabh 2002 Robert Kirshner  Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers
  Furlanetto, Steven 2003 Avi Loeb Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
  Herrnstein, Robin 2003 Paul Ho President, James and Robin Herrnstein Foundation
  Lloyd, Don 2003 Lars Hernquist Senior Business Intelliigence Analyst, First Federal Credit Union, Portland, OR
  Rines, Kenneth 2003 Margaret Geller Assistant Professor of Astronomy & Physics, Western Washington University
  Sokasian, Aaron 2003 Lars Hernquist Founder/CEO, Crypto Systems
  Wang, Xiaohu 2003 Avi Loeb Associate, Lehman Brothers, NY
  Harvey, Daniel 2003 David Wilner

Founder, Crypto Systems, Boulder, CO

  Chatterjee, Pinaki 2003 Lars Hernquist, Avi Loeb Partner/Portfolio Manager, Phase Capital, Boston
  Fish, Vincent 2004 Mark Reid Research Scientist, Haystack Observatory
  Heinke, Craig 2004 Jonathan Grindlay Associate Professor of Physics, University of Alberta
  Bragg, Ann 2004 Scott Kenyon Associate Professor of Physics, Director of Anderson-Hancock Planetarium, Marietta College
  Jang-Condell, Hannah 2004 Dimitar Sasselov Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wyoming
  Sun, Ming 2005 William Forman, Stephen Murray Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  Bonanos, Alceste 2005 Krzysztof Stanek Scientific Staff, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens
  Sollins, Peter 2005 Qizhou Zhang, Paul Ho Senior Associate Director of Intellectual Property, Harvard university
  Robertson, Brant 2006 Lars Hernquist Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Greene, Jenny 2006 John Huchra Assistant Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton
  Schnee, Scott 2006 Alyssa Goodman Systems Director, Aerospace Corp, Washington DC
  Marrone, Daniel 2006 James Moran, Raymond Blundell Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
  Kondratko, Paul 2007 Lincoln Greenhill Managing Director, Morgan Stanley. London
  Westover, Michael 2007 John Huchra Practice Manager, McKinsey & Co. Investments, Seattle
  Modjaz, Maryam 2007 Robert Kirshner Associate Professor of Physics, NYU
  Kallivayalil, Nitya 2007 Charles Alcock Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia
  Gelfand, Joseph 2007 Bryan Gaensler/Patrick Slane Associate Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi
  Bogdanov,Slavko 2007 Jonathan Grindlay Associate Research Scientist, Astronomy Dept., Columbia University
  Hickox, Ryan 2007 Ramesh Narayan Associate Professor of Astronomy, Dartmouth College
  Devor, Jonathan 2008 David Charbonneau  Director of Research and Innovation, Roadmetric Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel
  Cooper, Randall 2008 Ramesh Narayan Private Investor, Chicago
  Battat, James 2008 Christopher Stubbs Associate Professor of Physics, Wellesley College
  Hartman, Joel 2008 Matthew Holman Research Astronomer, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, University
  Hopkins, Phillip 2008 Lars Hernquist Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech
  Lai, Kamson 2008 Giovanni Fazio Data Science Manager, Airbnb, San Francisco
  Knutson, Heather 2009 David Charbonneau  Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech
  Park, Shinae 2009 Giovanni Fazio Physics Teacher, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
  Younger, Joshua 2009 Giovanni Fazio Managing Director, J. P. Morgan, NY
  McQuinn, Matthew 2009 Lars Hernquist Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington
  Blake, Cullen 2009 David Charbonneau/David Latham Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
  Eliza Kempton (nee Miller-Ricci) 2009 Dimitar Sasselov

Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Maryland

  Koenig, Xavier 2009 Lori Allen Systems Software Engineer, Collins Aerospace
  Penev, Kaloyan 2009 Dimitar Sasselov Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas
  Foster, Jonathan 2009 Alyssa Goodman Senior Director of Applied Analytics, Warner Media, Boston, MA
  Woods, Deborah 2009 Daniel Fabricant Senior Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre 2010 Lars Hernquist Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University
  Nantais, Julie 2010 John Huchra Assistant Professor of Physics, Andres Bello National University, Chile
  Fuentes, Cesar 2010 Matthew Holman Astronomer, Center for Excellence in Astrophysics, University of Chile
  Munoz, Joseph 2010 Avi Loeb Lincoln Laboratory, MA
  Hughes, Meredith 2010 David Wilner Associate  Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan College
  O'Leary, Ryan 2010 Avi Loeb Software Engineer, Google, Boulder, CO
  Steinhardt, Charles 2010 Martin Elvis Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Cosmic Dawn Center, U. of Connecticut
 

Tchekhovskoy,Alexandre

2010 Ramesh Narayan Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University
  Pineda, Jaime 2010 Alyssa Goodman Post Doc, Center for Astronomical Studies, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  Nutzman, Philip 2010 David Charbonneau Quantitative Researcher for Hedge Fund, London
  Bush, Stephanie 2010 Giovanni Fazio/Lars Hernquist Research Scientist, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Reading
  Marcus, Robert 2011 Hernquist/Sasselov Software Engineer, Uber, Boulder, CO
  Hao, Heng 2011 Martin Elvis Data Scientist/Staff Engineer, Samsung, San Francisco
  Neilsen, Joseph 2011 Julia Lee Assistant Professor, Physics, Villanova
  Besla, Gurtina 2011 Lars Hernquist Assistant Profesor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
  Shcherbakov, Roman 2011 Ramesh Narayan Software Development Engineer, Teradata, Raleigh, NC
  Tassev, Svetlin 2011 Lars Hernquist Physics Teacher, Braintree High School (MA)
  Mandel, Kaisey 2011 Robert Kirshner University Lecturer in Astronomy and Astrostatistics, Cambridge University UK
  Mao, Sui Ann 2011 Gaensler/Finkbeiner Scientific staff, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
  Hayward, Christopher 2011 Lars Hernquist Associate Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, New York 
  Steiner, James Francis 2012 Jeffery McClintock Astrophysicist, High Energy Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
  Friedman, Andrew Samuel 2012 Robert Kirshner (Deceased) Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Astrophysics & Space Science, UC, San Diego
  Blecha, Laura Elizabeth 2012 Avi Loeb Assistant Professor, Physics, University of Florida
  Su, Meng 2012 Doug Finkbeiner

Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong

  Maruca, Bennett Andrew 2012 Justin Kasper

Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Physics, University of Delaware

  Ballard, Sarah Ashley 2012 David Charbonneau Assistant Professor, Astronomy, University of Florida
  Tang, Sumin 2012 Josh Grindlay Data Science Manager, Facebook
  Berta, Zach 2013 David Charbonneau

Assistant Professor, Astrophysical & Planety Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

  Dawson, Rebekah  2013 Ruth Murray-Clay
Assistant Professor, Penn State, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Harris, Robert 2013 Sean Andrews Data Scientist, Verizon Media, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  Lanz, Lauranne 2013 Howard Smith Assistant Professor, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
  Muñoz, Diego 2013 Lars Hernquist CIERA Fellow, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern
  Penna, Robert 2013 Ramesh Narayan Postdoctoral Fellow, IAS
  Snyder, Greg 2013 Lars Hernquist Astronomical Data Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute
  Stone, Nicholas 2013 Avi Loeb Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
  Beky, Bence 2014 Matt Holman Software Engineer, Google, Boston
  Fong, Wen-fai 2014 Edo Berger Assistant Professor, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
  Sanders, Nathan  2014 Alicia Soderberg Data Scientist, Flagship Pioneering, Cambridge
  Torrey, Paul 2014 Lars Hernquist Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Florida
  Dressing, Courtney 2015 David Charbonneau Assistant Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
  Laskar, Tanmoy 2015 Edo Berger Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Bath, UK
  Li, Gongjie 2015 Avi Loeb Assistant Professor, Physics, Georgia Tech
  Moe, Maxwell 2015 Rosanne DiStefano Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona
  Lunnan, Ragnhild 2015 Edo Berger Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Stockholm
  Nelson, Dylan 2015 Lars Hernquist Post-doctoral fellow at Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching
  Rugheimer, Sarah 2015 Dimitar Sasselov and Lisa Kaltenegger Hugh Price Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
  Zeng. Li 2015 Dimitar Sasselov Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  Zhu, Yucong 2015 Ramesh Narayan Quantitative Researcher, D. E. Shaw Group, New York
  Bray, Aaron 2016 Daniel Eisenstein Law Clerk, Morrison & Foster LLP, Palo Alto, CA
  Czekala, Ian 2016 Sean Andrews NASA Hubble Fellow & Sagan Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
  Dittman, Jason 2016 David Charbonneau Inaugural Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute, MIT
  Drout, Maria 2016 Edo Berger Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
  Green, Gregory 2016 Douglas Finkbeiner Astrophysics Postoctoral Fell, KIPAC, Stanford
  Newton, Elisabeth 2016 David Charbonneau Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth
  Piso, Ana-Maria 2016 Karin Oberg Computer Project Manager, GMV, Romania
  Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente 2016 Lars Hernquist  Associate Professor, Institute of Radioastronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) in Morelia, Mexico
  Rosenfeld, Katherine 2016 Sean Andrews Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  Slepian, Zachary 2016 Daniel Eisenstein Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Florida
  Woolsey, Lauren 2016

Stephen Cranmer and Alyssa Goodman                                      

Assistant Professor, Physical Sciences Department, Grand Rapids Community College
 

Dierickx, Marion

2017 Avi Loeb

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory

 

Graninger, Dawn

2017 Karin Oberg

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Karkare, Kirit 2017 John Kovac Grainger Fellow and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) Fellow at the University of Chicago
  MacGregor, Meredith 2017 David J. Wilner NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and Vera Rubin Fellow at the Carnegie Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) in Washington, D.C. 
  Mocz, Philip 2017 Lars Hernquist Einstein and Spitzer Fellow at Princeton University
  Ranjan, Sukrit 2017 Dimitar Sasselov SCOL Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT
  Schaefer, Laura 2017 Dimitar Sasselov
Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Science
at Stanford University
  Suresh, Joshua 2017 Lars Hernquist Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, WA
  Ting, Yuan-Sen 2017 Charlie Conroy

Carnegie-Princeton Fellow and IAS Fellow at Princeton/IAS/Carnegie

  Vanderburg, Andrew 2017 David Latham Sagan Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
  Wellons, Sarah  2017 Lars Hernquist CIERA Fellow, Northwestern University
  Alexander, Kate 2018 Edo Berger Einstein Fellow, Northwestern University
  Becerra, Fernando 2018 Lars Hernquist Developer/Designer, Fathom, a software company located in Boston
  Chen, How-Huan 2018 Alyssa Goodman Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin
  Choi, Jieun 2018 Charles Conroy Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Netflix
  Christian, Pierre 2018 Avi Loeb Steward Observatory Prize Fellowship in Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics at the University of Arizona
  Chua, Kunting 2018 Lars Hernquist Research Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore
  Cowperthwaite, Philip 2018 Edo Berger Hubble Post-Doctoral Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, CA
         
  Faesi, Christopher 2018 Charles Lada Post-Doctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany
  Guo, Xinyi 2018 Ramesh Narayan D.E.  Shaw, NY, software developmer for computational chemistry applications
  Kelley, Luke 2018  Lars Hernquist CIERA Post-Doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University
  Loomis, Ryan 2018 Karin Oberg Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  Portillo, Stephen 2018 Douglas Finkbeiner DIRAC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Washington
  Tripathi, Anjali 2018 Sean Andrews Project Manager, Timeline Consortium
  Gu, Meng 2019 Charles Conroy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton
  Shan, Yutong 2019 Jennifer Yee Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Goettingen, Germany
  Wang, Xiawei 2019 Avi Loeb Senior Data Analyst, Boston Consulting Group
  Blanchard, Peter 2019 Edo Berger CIERA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
  Garrison, Lehman 2019 Daniel Eisenstein Flatiron Fellow, Flatiron Institute, NYU
  Cook, Benjamin 2019 Charles Conroy Juniior Quantitative Researcher, Akuna Capital, Boston
  Huang, Jane 2020 Karin Oberg, Sean Andrews Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory
  Villar, Victoria Ashley 2020 Edo Berger Simons Junior Fellow, Columbia University
  Todd, Zoe 2020 Dimitar Sasselov Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory
  Zucker, Catherine 2020 Douglas Finkbeiner, Allyssa Goodan Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory
  Speagle, Joshua 2020 Charles Conroy, Daniel Eisestein, Douglas Finkbeiner Post- Doctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory
  Dianmond-Lowe, Hannah 2020 David Charbonneau Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard College Observatory

*Radcliffe