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Born | Robert Eugene Williams October 14, 1940 Dunsmuir, California, U.S. |
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Thesis | The Ionization and Temperature Equilibrium of a Gas Excited by Optical Synchrotron Radiation (1965) |
Doctoral advisor | Donald E. Osterbrock |
Website | stsci |
Robert Eugene Williams (October 14, 1940)[1] is an American astronomer who served as the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) from 1993 to 1998,[2] and the president of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) from 2009 to 2012.[3][2] Prior to his work at STScI, he was a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson for 18 years and the director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory from 1986 to 1993.[4]