Jay M. Pasachoff
Director of Williams College's Hopkins Observatory;
Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy
Contact Information
Thompson Physics and Astronomy Lab 115,Williams College,
33 Lab Campus Drive,
Williamstown, MA 01267
Phone: (413) 597-2105
FAX: (413) 597-3200
E-mail: jay.m.pasachoff@williams.edu
| Bronx High School of Science | H.S. 1959 |
| Harvard College | A.B. 1963 |
| Harvard University | A.M. 1965 |
| Harvard University | Ph.D. 1969 |
Significant Honors:
| 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 |
| current | Chair, Working Group on Solar Eclipses 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 |
| Catrfornia Institute of Technology | 2008-9 |
| Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | 2009-11 |
See:
| www.solarcorona.com | for a list of his published books |
| www.solarcorona.net | for the Web pages for his astronomy texts |
| www.cengage.com/highered/ tinyurl.com/ctfpg3 |
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 | 48 past eclipse expeditions as of 2009 |
| www.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipses | for the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union |