John Huchra
Male, Deceased Person
1948 – 2010
Who was John Huchra?
John Peter Huchra was an American astronomer and professor. He was the Vice Provost for Research Policy at Harvard University and a Professor of Astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He was also a former chair of the United States National Committee for the International Astronomical Union. and past president of the American Astronomical Society.
Huchra was born on December 23, 1948, in Jersey City, New Jersey, to a father who was a train conductor and a mother who was a housewife. He was raised in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey and developed an interest in reading books about cosmology and science fiction. He was a member of the wrestling team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1970 with a major in physics. He went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in astronomy. He took on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 1976 and remained there for the rest of his career.
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- Born
- Dec 23, 1948
Jersey City - Also known as
- John Peter Huchra
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- PhD, California Institute of Technology
- Died
- Oct 8, 2010
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on July 23, 2013
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