Chris Impey

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Full Name	Chris Impey
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1956(1956-01-25)
Age	68
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Chris Impey Biography

Chris Impey is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on January 25, 1956 in England, United Kingdom. Christopher David Impey (born 25 January 1956) is a British Astronomer, educator and writer. He is a faculty member of the University of Arizona since 1986. Impey has been conducting research in observational cosmology specifically low brightness galaxiesand the intergalactic medium and studies of active galaxies as well as Quasars. In his role as an educator he’s developed the first instructional technology to teach science to students who are not majoring in science. He has written numerous technical papers and a set of popular science books, including Einstein’s Monsters The Living Cosmos, How It Ends, How It Began, Dreams of Other Worlds as well as Humble Before the Void. He was Vice- President for the American Astronomical Society, he is an Associate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Impey is also as a member of the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

Impey is an early pioneer in the application of technology to aid in instruction within the school classroom. He was the primary creator of the University of Arizona plan for instructional computing in the 1990s , and Impey gave the first-ever invitation-only education presentation at the American Astronomical Society meeting. He has served part of the advisory boards of Astronomy Education Review as well as The Encyclopedia of the Cosmos project He has also been as a director on the board for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He is a member of the International Executive Committee of the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena series of conferences. He has written more than 40 articles about the subject of education, pedagogy, as well as science literacy.

With planetary scientist Bill Hartmann, he wrote two introductory textbooks for college-level astronomy, The Cosmic Journey (1994), and The Universe Revealed (2000). On the subject of cosmology, he has written about the origin of the universe in How It Began (2012) and about the long term fate of the universe in How It Ends (2010). With English professor Holly Henry, he has written a survey of the scientific and cultural impact of iconic NASA missions in Dreams of Other Worlds (2013). His most recent book is Humble Before the Void (2014), based on teaching cosmology to Tibetan Buddhists in India as part of the Science for Monks program. In 2013, he published his first novel, Shadow World.

Impey enjoys conveying the excitement of astronomy to general audiences. Several times he has been an eclipse cruise lecturer, and since 2000 he has been a Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturer and a Smithsonian Associates Lecturer. In 2007, he was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. He has given the Cave lecture at the University of Kingston, the Benjamin Dean Lecture at the California Academy of Sciences, a TEDx lecture in Tucson, and the Robinson Lecture at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. He gives about twenty public talks a year, to audiences as diverse as kindergartners, NASA engineers, and Tibetan Buddhist monks. In 2014, he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and awarded $1 million to improve undergraduate education.

He was employed at his position at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii from 1981 to 1983 as a United Kingdom Scientist Research Council/NATO Fellow Then he joined the California Institute of Technology from 1983 until 1986 as an Weingart Fellow. Impey is in his faculty in the Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory at University of Arizona Since in 1986, and has been there since 2000, as an University named Distinguished Professor. He is the Deputy Department Head responsible for academic programs. He oversees the country’s most comprehensive undergraduate astronomy program, its second-largest astronomy doctoral program as well as one of the biggest programs for teaching the science of astronomy to non-science majors.

Chris Impey Net Worth

Chris Impey is one of the richest Astronomer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Impey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Impey is a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and spent his early years predominantly within New York and London, going to 11 schools. He graduated with a 1st-class honors BSc in Physics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology which is located within the University of London, in 1977. After a summer internship on a neutrino-calorimeter at CERN under the supervision of Dr. Jack Steinberger, he went to the University of Edinburgh for graduate school in Astronomy. He was awarded an PhD under the direction of Drs. Peter Brand and Ray Wolstencroft in 1981.

Focusing on the areas of extragalactic astronomy, as well as observational Cosmology, Impey has over 170 papers that have been published as refereed and 70 conference proceedings. His first research was focused on the active galactic sub-class nuclei, also known as BL Lac objects, now believed to be very luminous and variable sources in the extragalactic universe in which our viewline is nearly down the spin axis an extremely massive black hole emitting twin jets of relativistic energy. In the 1980s, he was an avid user of the initial wave of optical telescopes with large apertures located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

He was a heavy early user of the Hubble Space Telescope, getting time in each of the first eight cycles of observation. At Steward Observatory in the 1990s, he studied the intergalactic medium using multiple quasars to probe the three dimensional structure of the hot, diffuse gas in galaxies, which contains as many baryons as the sum of all the stars in the universe. He also studied gravitational lensing using the exquisite image quality and stability of the HST.

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Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Chris Impey celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.