BORN New York, New York, December 4, 1937
FAMILY Married to Alice Leventhal since April 16, 1961
Twin daughters Liza and Tama born August 16, 1969
EDUCATION B.S.- Physics, CCNY, 1958
Ph.D..- Physics, Brown University, 1964
Owens-Illinois Fellow, 1961-1964
EXPERIENCE
1964-1966 Research Associate with W. E. Lamb, Jr., Nobel
Laureate,
Yale University
1966-1968 Assistant Professor of Physics
Yale University
1968-1992 Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories
1992-July 1993 National Research Council Senior Research
Fellow
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
July 1993-Present Professor of Astronomy and Chairman
of Astronomy Department
University of Maryland at College Park, MD 20742-2421
SOCIETIES Sigma Xi, American Physical Society, American
Astronomical Society,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
FIELDS Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigations of
Amorphous
Solids, Lamb Shift and Fine Structure Measurements of
Hydrogenic Ions, Positronium Physics, Balloon Borne
Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Theoretical Astrophysics, Laboratory
Astrophysics, Positron Trapping
AWARDS NASA Group Achievement Award for GRIS Supernova
1987A
Observation
Fellow American Physical Society
COMMITTEES
1985-1986 Executive Committee of the High Energy Astrophysics
Division of the American Astronomical Society
1986-1988 NASA's Gamma Ray Astronomy Program Working Group
1986-1988 NASA's Gamma Ray Observatory Science Working Team
1987-1989 NASA's Astrophysics Management Operations Working Group
1987-1989 NASA's Supernova 1987A Science Working Group
1988-1991 NASA's Gamma Ray Observatory Users Committee
1989 NASA's Space Station Attached Payloads Review
1989-1990 National Research Council's Astronomy Survey
Committee,
"Bahcall Committee", High Energy From Space
Panel
1992-1993 Apker Committee of the American Physical Society
1993- Employment Committee of the American Astronomical Society
1993- NASA's INTEGRAL Science Advisory Committee
1993- University of Maryland CMPS Administrative Council
1993- University of Maryland CMPS College Council
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