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Edward L. Wright

Edward L. Wright has been a professor at UCLA since 1981. Wright works in infrared astronomy and cosmology. As an interdisciplinary scientist on the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF) Science Working Group, Wright has worked on the SIRTF project (renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope) since 1976. He was an active member of the teams working on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) since 1978. Wright is the principal investigator of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) project. Wright is also a member of the science team on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which launched in June 2001. Prof. Wright was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2011. Wright was named the Distinguished Scientist of the Year, in 1995 by the Center for the Study of the Evolution and Origin of Life. In 1992 he received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work on COBE, and NASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, in 2018. He received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as part of the WMAP team in December 2017.

Alan Dressler

Dressler is Astronomer Emeritus at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, in Pasadena, California. Dressler’s principal area of research is the formation and evolution of galaxies. He makes observations with large ground- and space-based telescopes — imaging and spectroscopy, to study the morphological types, structures, stars, and kinematics of galaxies. Dressler investigates galaxy evolution as it happened — by observing galaxies so distant that they are seen as they appeared billions of years ago. A principal direction of his research has been the charting of the diverse histories of star formation in galaxies, a strong constraint on theoretical models of how such structures have developed over cosmic time. Dressler has been an active member of the astronomical community and has served on and chaired many committees, for NSF, NASA, and the National Academy of Sciences, that make recommendations on future facilities like the James Webb Space Telescope and the next generation extremely large telescopes. He is an experienced and passionate promoter and popularizer of science and has written many magazine articles and a book, “Voyage to the Great Attractor: Exploring Extragalactic Space” that puts our studies of the universe in the broader context of humanity’s place in the natural world.

Virginia Trimble

Virginia Trimble is a native Californian and graduate of Hollywood High School, UCLA, and Caltech (PhD 1968) with honorary degrees from the Universities of Cambridge UK (MA 1969) and Valencia Spain (Dott. h.c. 2010). She is the oldest faculty member in physics and astronomy of the University of California, Irvine still on full active duty (having been the youngest in 1971, the only woman and the only astronomer for the first 15 years). Trimble is the only person to have been President of two different Divisions of the International Astronomical Union (Galaxies and the Universe; Union-Wide Activities) and is currently President of its Commission on Binary and Multiple Stars. Her publication list recently passed number 850, not including the present chapter and a dozen other items under review or in press. Most of her current research is in history of science and scientometrics, after years of plugging away at white dwarfs, supernovae, nucleosynthesis, binary star statistics, and so forth.

Alex Filippenko

Alex Filippenko is a Professor (and currently the Chair) of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and a Senior Miller Fellow in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science. An elected member of both the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is one of the world’s most highly cited (>130,000 citations) astronomers and the recipient of numerous prizes for his scientific research. He was the only person to have been a member of both teams that revealed the accelerating expansion of the Universe, an amazing discovery that was honored with the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to all team members, and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics to the teams’ leaders. Winner of the most prestigious teaching awards at UC Berkeley and voted the “Best Professor” on campus a record 9 times, in 2006 he was named the Carnegie/CASE National Professor of the Year among doctoral institutions, and in 2010 he received the ASP’s Richard H. Emmons Award for undergraduate teaching. He has produced 5 astronomy video courses with The Great Courses, coauthored an award-winning astronomy textbook (5 editions), and appears in more than 100 television documentaries. In 2004, he was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. He was selected as one of only two recipients of the 2017 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award. He makes a hobby of observing total solar eclipses throughout the globe, having seen 16 so far, all successfully.

Fred C. Adams

Born in Redwood City, California, Fred Adams received his undergraduate training in Mathematics and Physics from Iowa State University in 1983 and his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. For his PhD dissertation research, he received the Robert J. Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. After serving as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, he joined the faculty in the Physics Department at the University of Michigan in 1991. Adams was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and to Full Professor in 2001. He is the recipient of the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society and the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. He has also been awarded both the Excellence in Education Award and the Excellence in Research Award from the College of Literature, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Michigan. In 2002, he was given The Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Michigan. In 2007, he was elected to the Michigan Society of Fellows. In 2014, was elected to be a fellow of the American Physical Society and he was named as the Ta-you Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan.

Christopher P. McKay

Chris is a senior scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center. His research focuses on life in extreme environments and the search for life on other worlds in our Solar System. He is also actively involved in planning for future Mars missions including human exploration. Chris been involved in research in Mars-like environments on Earth, traveling to ice-covered lakes in Antarctica, permafrost in the Siberian and Canadian Arctic, many deserts including the Atacama, Namib, & Sahara Deserts to study life in these extreme environments. He was a co-investigator on the Huygens probe to Saturn’s moon Titan in 2005, the Mars Phoenix lander mission in 2008, and the Mars Science Laboratory mission, in 2012.