Charles Bailyn

Charles David Bailyn (born October 27, 1959) is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University and inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS College.

Charles Bailyn
Born (1959-10-27) October 27, 1959
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
NationalityUnited States
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materYale University
Harvard University
AwardsTrumpler Award (1990)
Bruno Rossi Prize (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy, Physics & Higher Education
InstitutionsYale University, Yale-NUS College

Education

He earned a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale in 1981 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard in 1987. His Ph.D. thesis on X-ray emitting binary stars received the Robert J. Trumpler Award for best North American Ph.D. thesis in astronomy.[1]

Career

Bailyn's research interests include high-energy astronomy and galactic astronomy and he has published over 100 referred papers.

During spring 2007, Bailyn recorded ASTR 160, Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, as part of the Open Yale Courses initiative.[2] Bailyn also recorded three updates to the course more than five years later on the subjects of extra-solar planets, black holes, and dark energy.

On July 6, 2016, Yale announced that Bailyn would become the first head of the new Benjamin Franklin College, which opened in 2017.[3]

Recognition

Bailyn was awarded the 2009 Bruno Rossi Prize for his research on the masses of black holes.[4]

Family

His father was historian Bernard Bailyn.[5]

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References
  1. "Yale University Club de Mexico". Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
  2. Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics with Professor Charles Bailyn Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine at Open Yale Courses
  3. "Heads of the two new residential colleges are named". Yale University. July 6, 2016. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
  4. Charles Bailyn Is Honored for Work Measuring Galactic Black Holes Archived 2010-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at Yale University Office of Public Affairs


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