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Chris Impey is University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has 170 refereed publications, and his research has been supported by $20 million in grants from NASA and the NSF. He has won eleven teaching awards, and he is teaching an online class with over 15,000 enrolled. Impey is a past VP of the American Astronomical Society and he has been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, the Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He’s written over 40 popular articles on cosmology and astrobiolo
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Tucson, Arizona, Arizona United States
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www.chrisimpey.com
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Chris Impey is University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has 170 refereed publications, and his research has been supported by $20 million in grants from NASA and the NSF. He has won eleven teaching awards, and he is teaching an online class with over 15,000 enrolled. Impey is a past VP of the American Astronomical Society and he has been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, the Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He’s written over 40 popular articles on cosmology and astrobiolo
Tags
astronomy
planets
extremophiles
seti
drake equation
exobiology
dark energy
cosmology
big bang
expansion
dark matter
black holes
galaxies
neutron star
stars
black hole
supernova
pulsar
biology
exoplanets
solar system
detectors
telescopes
optics
See more