Jean Swank
Jean Hebb Swank is an American astronomer and astrophysicist who specializes in X-ray astronomy .
Swank studied at Bryn Mawr College with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and received his doctorate in physics ( Radiative Corrections to Neutrino-Electron Interactions ) at Caltech with Steven Frautschi in 1967 . From 1966 to 1969 she was Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles , 1969 to 1971 in the same function at Chicago State University and 1971 to 1974 at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara . From 1975 she worked as Röntgenastronomin at Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA, on which she has been researching as an astrophysicist since 1977. She is a project scientist at the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and developed the proportional counter array for it.
She also did research on HEAO 1 and HEAO 2, BBXRT , EXOSAT and OSO 8 . She was the lead scientist on the 2012 abandoned Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX satellite.
In 1993 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1999 she received the Bruno Rossi Prize with Hale Bradt for the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer and the observations made with it on compact astrophysical objects with high time resolution (laudation).
Web links
- Homepage
- Measuring Cosmic X-ray Fireworks , by Barbara Spector
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Swank, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swank, Jean Hebb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |