Peter Michelson

Peter F. Michelson (* 1952 ) is an American physicist .

Michelson studied physics at Santa Clara University with a bachelor's degree in 1974 and at Stanford University with a master's degree in 1976 and a doctorate in 1979. He was from 1976 to 1979 at the NASA Ames Research Center and from 1980 at Stanford University which he became Assistant Professor in 1985, Associate Professor in 1991 and Professor in 1997.

In 1992 he and William B. Atwood proposed the GLAST gamma-ray space telescope project, which later became the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope . From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of NASA's Gamma-Ray Astronomy Program Working Group and from 1997 to 1999 co-leader of the team that specified the Fermi telescope (Fermi Facility Science Definition Team). He headed the Large Area Telescope (LAT) at the Fermi Telescope.

He used to work with gravitational wave detectors .

In 2011 he received the Bruno Rossi Prize with Atwood and the other members of the Fermi Telescope . In 2009 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

• Homepage in Stanford
• Biography at NASA