William G. Tifft

Who is William G. Tifft?

William G. Tifft is Emeritus Professor/Astronomer at the University of Arizona. His main interests are in galaxies, superclusters and what Tifft calls redshift problems. He was influential in the development of the first redshift surveys and was an early proponent of manned space astronomy, conducted at a proposed moon base for example. In retirement, he is a principal scientist with the The Scientific Association for the Study of Time in Physics and Cosmology.

He has an A.B. in Astronomy from Harvard University, and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology where he wrote his dissertation on photoelectric photometry, a copy of which is available online.