Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Rochester
Department of Physics and
Astronomy
Rochester, NY 14627-0171
585-275-8576 (voice), 585-273-2813
(FAX)
dmw@pas.rochester.edu
| Dan M. Watson Professor of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester 585-275-8576 (voice), 585-273-2813
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Dan is an experimental/observational astrophysicist whose research has included work on star and planetary-system formation, the structure and evolution of spiral galaxies, the nature and formation of active galactic nuclei, and the development of instruments and infrared detector arrays for astronomy. He received his bachelor's degree in physics (philosophy minor) from Revelle College, University of California, San Diego (1976); received his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1983); and did his postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. He joined the UR faculty in 1988.
Check out these images of the final state of Dan's old car, the day after Dan had the honor of being broadsided and flipped by a high-speed red-light runner.
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Dan is a member of the Infrared Spectrograph
(IRS) team on the Spitzer Space Telescope,
NASA's infrared Great Observatory. IRS_Disks is our main Spitzer
guaranteed-time observing program on the formation and evolution of protostellar and
protoplanetary disks.
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Web sites for current and recent
courses:
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Dan serves on the department
Executive Committee, and chairs or otherwise belongs to several other department committees.
He is glad to be done with his turn as Associate Chair of the department, 2005-2006.
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Held
over by popular demand: the