Giovanni Fazio

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Giovanni G. Fazio
Education
  • BS (Physics) and BA (Chemistry) degrees from St. Mary's University, Texas, in 1954
  • Ph.D. (Physics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959
Alma mater
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Websitewww.cfa.harvard.edu/~gfazio/

Giovanni Fazio is an American

observation
programs.

Career

In 1962 he joined the

F. L. Whipple Observatory, Arizona, for the search of ultra-high-energy cosmic gamma-rays
.

In 1984 Fazio was selected as Principal Investigator for the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) experiment on the Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA). The telescope was launched in August 2003, and has since produced multiple discoveries and images of the infrared universe.

Fazio is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. He is also the main editor of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology.[5]

Awards

In recognition of his scientific contribution, Fazio has received many international awards. He was awarded the 2015 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship for "his pioneering work on gamma-ray and infrared instrumentation, which has advanced our understanding in many areas of astronomy, ranging from near-Earth objects to high-redshift galaxies."[6]

In 2019, Fazio received the SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics "in recognition of exceptional achievements in the area of infrared instruments spanning 40 years including the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which has made extraordinary discoveries from measuring the mass of the most distant galaxy (GN-z11) to finding and characterizing seven Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system."[2]

He was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [7]

References

  1. ^ "Spitzer Team Member Wins Gold Medal". NASA/JPL. U.S.: NASA. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics". SPIE. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  3. ^ "Giovanni Fazio's research works: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge and other places". ResearchGate. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  4. ^ "Giovanni G. Fazio". Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  5. ISBN 978-981-4656-19-1
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  6. ^ "Henry Norris Russell Lectureship". American Astronomical Society. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
  7. ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
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