William R. Forman
William R. Forman is an American astrophysicist . He is co-chair of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
Forman studied at Haverford College until 1969 and received his doctorate in June 1970 from Harvard University with X-ray observations at the Uhuru . He then continued his observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters in particular with the X-ray satellites High Energy Astronomy Observatory 2 (Einstein Observatory), ROSAT , XMM-Newton and Chandra . From 1991 to 2006 he was in charge of Chandra's scientific operational planning.
In 1985 he and his wife Christine Jones Forman received the first Bruno Rossi Prize for the discovery of areas of hot gases around bright elliptical galaxies. 1979 both received the Bart J. Bok Prize from Harvard University.
Web links
- Homepage. Harvard University(English).
- William Richard Forman. IAU (English).
- Short biography in the Chandra Panel. 2008(English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Bok Prize. harvard.edu, accessed April 17, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Forman, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forman, William Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1944 and 1949 |