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Department Chair: Raja Guha Thakurta Department Manager: Lindsay Lauver
Vice Chair: Jonathan Fortney Graduate Advisor: Libby Severson
Graduate Program Director: Andrew Skemer Department Assistant: Naomi Epps
Undergraduate Program Director: Natalie Batalha Program Coordinator, Astrobiology Institute: Deana Tanguay
Bruce H Margon
  • Title
    • Professor Emeritus of Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-1596
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • 171 Natural Sciences II
  • Mail Stop UCO / Lick Observatory
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street
    • Santa Cruz CA 95060
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Astronomy, Astrophysics

Research Interests

High energy astrophysics, x-ray astronomy, close binary systems, digital sky surveys.

Biography, Education and Training

Ph. D., Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, 1973
M. A., Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, 1971
A. B., Astrophysics, Columbia University, 1968

Honors, Awards and Grants

University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecturer, 1999–2000
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1991
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1985
American Astronomical Society Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, 1981
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, 1979–83
U. K. Science Research Council Senior Visiting Fellowship, 1978
NASA Group Achievement Awards, 1975, 1991
NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1973–74
NDEA Predoctoral Fellowship, 1971–72