B.S. (Physics) University of Minnesota, 1963 Ph.D. (Physics) California Institute of Technology, 1968
Known for
infrared astronomy airborne observatories
Eric E. Becklin (born 6 April 1940) is an American astrophysicist. The primary focus of Becklin's research is infrared imaging and spectroscopy, including the search for brown dwarfs, the detection of circumstellar dust rings, the dynamics and composition of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and the nature of luminous infrared galaxies.[1]
Becklin received his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology His thesis advisor was Gerry Neugebauer, and his thesis was Infrared Observation of the Galatic [sic] Center.[2] A faculty member since 1989, Becklin is a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Named Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Chief Scientist in 1996, he was the first director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii and a principal investigator on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO).
On August 23, 2012, in a ceremony held at Dryden Flight Research Center (now the Armstrong Flight Research Center), Becklin received the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal “for excellence as a pioneer in the infrared astronomy field and providing key leadership for the scientific success of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.”[3] He was awarded the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship by the American Astronomical Society in 2017.[4]
In 1966, Becklin and Gerry Neugebauer discovered an exceptionally bright infrared source within Orion known today as the Becklin-Neugebauer Object.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[6]
In 1988, while returning home from an observing run on Mauna Kea, Becklin was a passenger on Aloha Airlines Flight 243, which underwent explosive decompression and had to make an emergency landing in Maui.[7]
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Eric E. Becklin (born 6 April 1940) is an American astrophysicist. The primary focus of Becklin's research is infrared imaging and spectroscopy, including...
System. In December 1988, a study conducted by Benjamin Zuckerman and EricBecklin, American astrophysicists, detected a substantial circumstellar disc...
subject to a general relativistic instability 1967 — EricBecklin and Gerry Neugebauer discover the Becklin-Neugebauer Object at 10 micrometres 1977 — (May...
Joseph Baxendell in april 1860. Becklin's Star is IRC -10093 in Messier 42, Orion. Named after EricBecklin. The Becklin–Neugebauer Object is an infrared...
an infrared detector purchased from a military contractor was used by EricBecklin in 1966 to determine the center of the Milky Way for the first time....
cataloged more than 5,000 infrared sources. Together with EricBecklin, he discovered the Becklin–Neugebauer Object, an intense source of infrared radiation...
envelope. It was first discovered in 1969 by a group of astronomers led by EricBecklin, based upon infrared observations made with the 62-inch Caltech Infrared...
Walter Baade. Becklin–Neugebauer Object is located in the Orion molecular cloud complex and only visible in infrared, named after EricBecklin and Gerry Neugebauer...
Bardeen, PhD 1965 Nick Barua, COO of Swift Xi EricBecklin, PhD 1968 Edmund Bertschinger, BS 1979 Eric Betzig, BS 1983, co-recipient of 2014 Nobel Prize...
Silverstone, Murray D.; Becklin, Eric E. (1994). "Performance and results with a double-beam infrared camera". In Crawford, David L; Craine, Eric R (eds.). Instrumentation...
Pierce, an American astronomer. Source: AAS 1974 Edwin M. Kellogg 1975 EricBecklin 1976 James Roger Angel 1977 Donald N.B. Hall 1978 James M. Moran, Jr...
George B. Field 2015 Giovanni G. Fazio 2016 Christopher F. McKee 2017 EricBecklin 2018 Joseph Silk 2019 Ann Merchant Boesgaard 2020 Scott Tremaine 2021...
University Michael N. Barnett, professor, George Washington University EricBecklin, professor Emeritus, UCLA David T. Beito, professor, The University of...
(1978) from California Institute of Technology where he studied under EricBecklin, Michael Werner and Gerry Neugebauer on board NASA’s Kuiper Airborne...
Sakai, Shoko; Lu, Jessica R.; Gautam, Abhimat K.; O’Neil, Kelly Kosmo; Becklin, Eric E. (2019-08-16). "Relativistic redshift of the star S0-2 orbiting the...
A. M.; Schödel, R.; Meyer, L.; Yelda, S.; Albers, S.; Martinez, G. D.; Becklin, E. E.; Do, T.; Lu, J. R.; Matthews, K.; Morris, M. R.; Sitarski, B.; Witzel...
doi:10.1093/mnras/stt1906. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 53393704. Hyland, A. R.; Becklin, E. E.; Neugebauer, G.; Wallerstein, George (1969). "Observations of the...
1146/annurev-astro-082708-101811. S2CID 118172025. Ghez, A.; Klein, B.; Morris, M.; Becklin, E (1998). "High Proper-Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sagittarius A*:...
The first white dwarf with infrared excess was discovered by Zuckerman&Becklin in 1987 in the near-infrared around Giclas 29-38 and later confirmed as...
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