Robert Williams (astronomer)
Robert Eugene Williams (born October 14, 1940 in Dunsmuir ) is an American astronomer.
Williams graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1965 . In 1965 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the University of Arizona at Tucson. 1986 to 1993 he was director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory . From 1993 to 1998 he was director of the Space Telescope Science Institute , which was responsible for the Hubble space telescope . In that capacity, he gave observation time to both the High-Z Supernova Search Team and the Supernova Cosmology Project in 1996 (which contributed to one of the most important discoveries in cosmology, the accelerated expansion of the universe ), and Hubble Deep Field also fell within his time . From 1993 he was also adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University .
1971/72 he was Fulbright Professor at the University of London and 1984/85 at the NASA Ames Research Center. From 2009 to 2012 he was President of the International Astronomical Union .
Among other things, he dealt with spectroscopic studies of nebulae and novae .
In 2016 he received the Karl Schwarzschild Medal and he received the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize in 1998, a Humboldt Research Prize in 1991 and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1999. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
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- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Williams, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Williams, Robert Eugene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dunsmuir |