Claude R. Canizares is the Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi

Bruno Benedetto Rossi was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and particle physics from 1930 through the 1950s, and pioneered X-ray astronomy and space plasma physics in the 1960s.-Biography:Rossi was born in Venice, Italy...

 Professor of Physics at MIT. He is also an associate provost at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center

Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a satellite launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. It was named in honor of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who is known for determining the maximum mass for white dwarfs. "Chandra" also means "moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit.Chandra...

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Academic career

Prof. Canizares earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and joined the physics faculty in 1974. In 1984, he was made a full professor.

From 1990 to 2002, Prof. Canizares was the director of MIT's Center for Space Research (now known as the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research). In 2002, he was appointed Associate Provost and Vice President for Research.

Canizares is the principal investigator for the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a satellite launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. It was named in honor of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar who is known for determining the maximum mass for white dwarfs. "Chandra" also means "moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit.Chandra...

's High Resolution Transmission Grating Spectrometer instrument.

Selected publications

Prof. Canizares is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers.

• "Simulating the X-ray Forest"

T Fang, GL Bryan, and C.R. Canizares

ApJ 564, 604 (2002)

• "The High Resolution X-ray Spectrum of SS 433 using the Chandra HETGS"

H.L Marshall, C.R. Canizares and N.S. Schulz

ApJ 564, 941-952 (2002)

• "A High Resolution X-ray Image of the Jet in M 87"

H.L. Marshall, B.P. Miller, D.S. Davis, E.S. Perlman, M. Wise, C.R. Canizares, D.E. Harris, J.A. Biretta

ApJ 564, 683-687 (2002)

• "Resolving the Composite Fe K-alpha Emission Line in the Galactic Black Hole Cygnus X-1 with Chandra"

J.M. Miller, A.C. Fabian, R. Wijnands, R.A. Remillard, P. Wojdowski, N.S. Schulz, T. Di Matteo, H.L. Marshall, C.R. Canizares, D. Pooley, W.H.G. Lewin

ApJ submitted, February 2002.

• "High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Multiphase Interstellar Medium toward Cyg X-2"

Y.Yao, N.S. Shulz, M.F. Gu, M.A. Nowak and C.R. Canizares

ApJ 696, (2) 1418-1430 (2009)

• ""X-ray Emission and Corona of the Young Intermediate Mass Binary q1 Ori E."

D.P. Huenemoerder, N.S. Schulz, P. Testa, A.Kesich, C.R. Canizares

ApJ 707, 942-953 (2009)

• "Confirmation of X-Ray Absorption by WHIM in the Sculptor Wall"

T.Fang, D.A. Buote, P.J. Humphrey, C.R. Canizares, L. Zappacosta, R.Maiolino

ApJ 714, 1715-1724 (2010)

External links

• Claude Canizares' website at MIT