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Donald York Horace B. Horton Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics Areas of Expertise:
Steve Koppes |
Background:
York uses a variety of orbiting and ground based telescopes to study the interstellar medium -- the rarefied dust and gas in space -- to learn about the origin of the elements, galaxy formation and quasars. He was the founding director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a collaboration of 13 institutions and 200 astronomers around the world that in 1998 began conducting the largest census ever taken of the sky. York also is the founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Public Schools/University of Chicago Internet Project (CUIP). The project focuses on producing a sustainable Internet culture in 29 public schools in the neighborhood of the University of Chicago.
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