Peter McCullough

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter McCullough
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Aug 20, 1964(1964-08-20)
Age	60
Birthplace	Providence
Country	United States
Birth City	Rhode Island
Horoscope	Leo

Peter McCullough Biography

Peter McCullough is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on August 20, 1964 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Peter R. McCullough (/m ə ˈ k ʌ l ə / ; born August 20, 1964, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American astronomer, founder of the XO Project and discoverer of extrasolar transiting planets, such as XO-1b. Soon after the U.S. declassification of the laser beacon adaptive optics technique in 1991, he identified dusty disks around newborn stars, later referred to as proplyds, in observations of the Orion Nebula made with the Starfire Optical Range. Astronomers John Gaustad, McCullough, and David Van Buren with engineer Wayne Rosing mapped the entire southern sky in the hydrogen alpha transition with sufficient sensitivity for decontamination of the Milky Way from the cosmic microwave background. McCullough’s modification to the Stromgren sphere model often produces more realistic results than the original.

McCullough was a Hubble postdoctoral fellow, and then an assistant professor in the Astronomy Department of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since 2002 he has been employed by the Space Telescope Science Institute. He also works on the science team of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. In 2009-2010 he was a visiting scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Institut d’astrophysique de Paris.

Peter McCullough Net Worth

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

McCullough attended public primary school in Massachusetts and Athens Drive High School in North Carolina. In summers between his undergraduate years, he interned at the Wind River National Outdoor Leadership School, the Palo Alto CA police department, Weyerhauser, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array. McCullough received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1986 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the University of California, Berkeley, he earned a PhD in astrophysics in 1993.

McCullough has received numerous awards throughout his career. His undergraduate education was supported entirely by merit scholarships. NASA granted him a graduate student researcher award and a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship in 1993. He was a recipient of the Sloan Fellowship. In recognition of his university teaching and research, the U.S. National Science Foundation granted him a CAREER award and the Research Corporation selected him as a Cottrell Scholar.

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Melitta Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Peter McCullough celebrates birthday on August 20 of every year.