Jay M. Pasachoff

Director of the Hopkins Observatory; Chair, Astronomy Department; Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy
at Williams since 1972

Jay Pasachoff at Podium. Credit: Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Education

Bronx High School of Science    H.S. 1959

Harvard College                         A.B. 1963

Harvard University                     A.M. 1965

Harvard University                     Ph.D. 1969

Harvard College Observatory    postdoc 1969-70

Caltech                                     postdoc 1970-72

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
2012 Janssen Medal, Société Astronomique de France
2013-15 Chair, Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society; 2013-15, Chair; 2015-17 Past Chair
2017 Richtmeyer Memorial Lecture Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
2019 Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific  
2020  Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/aas-fellows

2022 Fellow of Sigma Xi

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

California Institute of Technology                                   2008-9, Fall 2012, Spring 2016

Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena                               Spring 2019

Visiting Scientist Appointments, Not in Residence

California Institute of Technology                                                       2010-2011

California Institute of Technology Auxiliary Appointment, Visitor          Fall 2012-2013,                                                                                                                    2014-17

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory                                             2009-2012

 

Officer and Committee Member:

President, Commission 46 (Astronomy Education and Development) of the International Astronomical Union (2003-2006); Retiring President (2003-2006); U.S. National Liaison to the Commission and its predecessor, The Teaching of Astronomy, (197-)

Chair, Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union, Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage and Division E Sun and Heliosphere

Member, Johannes Kepler Working Group, IAU Commission 41 (now C.C3) on the History of Astronomy 

Member, IAU Division C Commission C1 (C.C1) Working Group, Theory and Methods in Astronomy Education

Member, IAU Division C Commission C1 (C.C1) Working Group, Network for Astronomy School Education

Past Chair, Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society (2015-17); Chair (2013-2015)

Organizing Committee, International Astronomical Union C.C3 on the History of Astronomy (2015-2018)

IAU Working Group on Star Names (2016–), Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage

Former Chair, Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society (2013-15)

Executive Committee Working Group (EC-WG) of the IAU; Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites (2016-); IAU Working Group on Star Names (2016-)

Contact Information

Office: Thompson Physical Laboratory 115, 33 Lab Campus Drive, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267-2565
Phone: (413) 597-2105
Fax: (413) 597-3200
Home Phone: (413) 458-8346
Cell Phone: (617) 285-6351
E-mail: [email protected]

www.totalsolareclipse.org
73 past solar eclipse expeditions as of 2021

www.eclipses.info
for the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union

http://thecosmos5.com/
for Cambridge University Press Web pages for his text

http://thecosmos5.com
For the most recent edition, also from Cambridge University Press, Published May 2019

https://sites.williams.edu/pasachoff/2019tom/
Transit of Mercury Information

www.solarcorona.com
for a list of his published books and links to their availability

http://ttj.sagepub.com/content/31/2/161.full.pdf

Pasachoff, Jay M., and Spencer R. Weart, 1974, “Creation of the Universe: A Modest Proposal” (a parody), Journal of Irreproducible Results, 1973; reprinted in Theology Today 31 (2), 161, July 1974. Later anthologized in More Random Walks in Science (R. L. Weber, ed.), CRC Press, 1982.  Also included in Pasachoff, Contemporary Astronomy.

 

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