{"id":2,"date":"2012-07-25T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-07-14T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T13:30:52","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay M. Pasachoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Director of the Hopkins Observatory; Chair, Astronomy Department;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>at Williams since 1972<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_882\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2020\/03\/headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-image-882 size-full\" title=\"JayLaPalmaBig\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2020\/03\/headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2020\/03\/headshot.jpg 468w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2020\/03\/headshot-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Pasachoff at Podium. Credit: Astronomical Society of the Pacific<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/sample-page\/attachment\/dsc_0112\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2012\/07\/DSC_0112-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-204\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204'>\n\t\t\t\tJay Pasachoff during the partial phases of the 2012 annular solar eclipse.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/sample-page\/attachment\/photo\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2012\/07\/photo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-211\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-211'>\n\t\t\t\tThe eclipse was observed at the Jansky Very Large Array.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Bronx High School of Science\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0H.S. 1959<\/p>\n<p>Harvard College \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A.B. 1963<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A.M. 1965<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ph.D. 1969<\/p>\n<p>Harvard College Observatory \u00a0 \u00a0postdoc 1969-70<\/p>\n<p>Caltech \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 postdoc 1970-72<\/p>\n<p>2003 Education Prize, American Astronomical Society<br \/>\n2003 Honorary Member, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada<br \/>\n2003-2006 President, Commission on Education and Development of the International Astronomical Union current Chair, Working Group on Solar Eclipses<br \/>\n2012 Janssen Medal, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Astronomique de France<br \/>\n2013-15 Chair, Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society; 2013-15, Chair; 2015-17 Past Chair<br \/>\n2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aapt.org\/aboutaapt\/pressreleases\/2017_AAPT_Richtmyer_Memorial_Lecture_Award.cfm\">Richtmeyer Memorial Lecture Award, American Association of Physics Teachers<\/a><br \/>\n2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/astrosociety.org\/who-we-are\/awards\/klumpke-roberts-award.html\">Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific \u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n2020 \u00a0Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society<br \/>\n<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aas.org\/grants-and-prizes\/aas-fellows\">https:\/\/aas.org\/grants-and-prizes\/aas-fellows<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2022 Fellow of Sigma Xi<\/p>\n<h2>Sabbatical and Other Leaves<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1980-81, 1984-85<\/p>\n<p>Institut d&#8217;Astrophysique, Paris \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01988<\/p>\n<p>Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1989-90<\/p>\n<p>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01993-4<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University\u00a0\u00a0 Visiting Lecturer in Astronomy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1993-4<\/p>\n<p>Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Visiting Scientist 1993-4<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University: Associate of the Astronomy Dept. \u00a0 \u00a0Smithsonian Astrophysical \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Observatory: Visiting Scientist \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2001-2<\/p>\n<p>California Institute of Technology \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2008-9, Fall 2012, Spring 2016<\/p>\n<p>Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Spring 2019<\/p>\n<h2>Visiting Scientist Appointments, Not in Residence<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>California Institute of Technology \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2010-2011<\/p>\n<p>California Institute of Technology Auxiliary Appointment, Visitor \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Fall 2012-2013, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02014-17<\/p>\n<p>Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2009-2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Officer and Committee Member:<\/h2>\n<p>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-)<\/p>\n<p>Chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/93\/\">Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union, Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage and Division E Sun and Heliosphere<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/283\/members\/\">Johannes Kepler Working Group, IAU Commission 41 (now C.C3) on the History of Astronomy\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/257\/\">IAU Division C Commission C1 (C.C1) Working Group, Theory and Methods in Astronomy Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/258\/\">IAU Division C Commission C1 (C.C1) Working Group, Network for Astronomy School Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past Chair, Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society (2015-17); Chair (2013-2015)<\/p>\n<p>Organizing Committee, International Astronomical Union C.C3 on the History of Astronomy (2015-2018)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/280\/\">IAU Working Group on Star Names (2016\u2013), Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Chair, Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society (2013-15)<\/p>\n<p>Executive Committee Working Group (EC-WG) of the IAU; Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites (2016-); IAU Working Group on Star Names (2016-)<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Contact Information<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Office: Thompson Physical Laboratory 115, 33 Lab Campus Drive, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267-2565<br \/>\nPhone: (413) 597-2105<br \/>\nFax: (413) 597-3200<br \/>\nHome Phone: (413) 458-8346<br \/>\nCell Phone: (617) 285-6351<br \/>\nE-mail: jay.m.pasachoff@williams.edu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalsolareclipse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.totalsolareclipse.org <\/a><br \/>\n73 past solar eclipse expeditions as of 2021<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipses.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.eclipses.info<br \/>\n<\/a>for the Working Group on\u00a0Eclipses of the International\u00a0Astronomical Union<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/thecosmos5.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/thecosmos5.com\/<\/a><br class=\"\" \/><span class=\"\">for Cambridge University Press Web pages for his text<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecosmos5.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/thecosmos5.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1554222244568000&amp;usg=AFQjCNETzNZE19OnMf2eXg45KImipJ7K-w\">http:\/\/thecosmos5.com<\/a><br \/>\nFor the most recent edition, also from Cambridge University Press, Published May 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2019tom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2019tom\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Transit of Mercury Information<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/solar-corona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.solarcorona.com<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">for a list of his published books and links to their availability<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ttj.sagepub.com\/content\/31\/2\/161.full.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/ttj.sagepub.com\/content\/31\/2\/161.full.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pasachoff, Jay M., and Spencer R. Weart, 1974, &#8220;Creation of the Universe: A Modest Proposal&#8221; (a parody), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Irreproducible <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Results, 1973; reprinted in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theology Today<\/span><\/i> <b>31<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2), 161, July 1974. Later anthologized in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More Random Walks in Science<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (R. L. Weber, ed.), CRC Press, 1982.\u00a0 Also included in Pasachoff, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contemporary Astronomy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of the Hopkins Observatory; Chair, Astronomy Department;\u00a0Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams since 1972 Education Bronx High School of Science\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0H.S. 1959 Harvard College \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A.B. 1963 Harvard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}