{"id":2,"date":"2011-01-22T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williams.edu\/kkwitter\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-07-16T18:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:31:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen B. Kwitter – Astronomy Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Karen<\/h3>\n

Ebenezer Fitch Professor of\u00a0Astronomy,\u00a0Emerita<\/em><\/a>
\nWilliams College
\nWilliamstown, MA 01267<\/h3>\n

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Office<\/strong><\/em>: 204 TPL
\nPhone<\/strong><\/em>: 413-597-2272
\nFAX<\/strong><\/em>: 413-597-3200
\nemail<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0kkwitter-at-williams.edu<\/p>\n

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EDUCATION<\/strong><\/span>
\nWellesley College – BA in Astronomy and Physics (with honors)<\/em>
\nUCLA – MA, PhD in Astronomy<\/em><\/p>\n

TEACHING<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RESEARCH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Most Recent<\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>On the Computation of I<\/strong>nterstellar Extinction in Photoionized Nebulae<\/strong>, C. Morisset, R.L.M. Corradi, J. Garc\u00eda-Rojas, A. Mampaso, D. Jones, K.B. Kwitter, L. Magrini, & E. Villaver, Astron. & Astrophys.,\u00a0674, L6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Planetary Nebulae as Tools for Astrophysics<\/a>, a Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences Topic<\/i>, co-edited by Kwitter<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Planetary Nebulae: Sources of Enlightenment<\/a>, an invited review\/tutorial by Kwitter & Henry<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. This was the second most downloaded PASP paper in 2022, and to date has been downloaded more than 4000 times.<\/p>\n

Kwitter & Henry planetary nebula analysis results available online.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NON-SCIENCE, BUT TASTY!<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nFor the best challah ever, try Grandma Rosie’s Fabulous Challah<\/a>.
\nOr, you might like Grandma Rosie’s Fabulous High Holiday Sweet Round Challah<\/a>\u00a0or even Grandma Rosie’s Fabulous Chocolate Babka<\/a>.\u00a0They each take about 3 hours start to finish, but they’re worth it! (If you’re in a hurry, try Grandma Rosie’s Fabulous One-Loaf breadmaker Recipe<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

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Header Images:\u00a0Ring Nebula slitless spectrum (extracted from Image of M57, the Ring Nebula, taken by the 2006 NOAO REU students under supervision of Dr. Steve Howell); NGC 2440 slit spectrum (laserstars.org)<\/p>\n

last updated 7\/16\/24<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ebenezer Fitch Professor of\u00a0Astronomy,\u00a0Emerita Williams College Williamstown, MA 01267   Office: 204 TPL Phone: 413-597-2272 FAX: 413-597-3200 email:\u00a0kkwitter-at-williams.edu   EDUCATION Wellesley College – BA in Astronomy and Physics (with honors) UCLA – MA, PhD in Astronomy TEACHING RESEARCH SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Most Recent On the Computation of Interstellar Extinction in Photoionized Nebulae, C. Morisset, R.L.M. Corradi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":150,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/kkwitter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}