Jay Pasachoff in 2005 standing in front of the largest telescope in the world, the 10.4-meter reflector in the Canary Islands. Click on the image for a higher-resolution version.

Jay M. Pasachoff

Director of Hopkins Observatory;
Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy

at Williams since 1972

Education

Bronx High School of Science H.S. 1959
Harvard College A.B. 1963
Harvard University A.M. 1965
Harvard University Ph.D. 1969

 

2003 Education Prize, American Astronomical Society
2003 Honorary Member, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
2003-2006 President, Commission on Education and Development of the
International Astronomical Union

Sabbatical and Other Leaves

Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii 1980-81, 1984-85
Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris 1988
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1989-90
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 1993-4
Harvard University Visiting Lecturer in Astronomy, 1993-4
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Visiting Scientist 1993-4
Harvard University: Associate of the Astronomy Dept. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: Visiting Scientist 2001-2

Contact Information

See:

www.solarcorona.com for a list of his published books
www.solarcorona.net for the Web pages for his astronomy texts
info.brookscole.com/pasachoff for Brooks/Cole's Web pages for his texts
www.eclipses.info for the Program Group on Public Education
at the Times of Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union
www.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipse ~40 past eclipse expeditions
www.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipses for the Working Group on Eclipses
of the International Astronomical Union