Draft:Bruce Balick

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Bruce Balick (born March 8, 1943 in Washington, D.C.) is an American astronomer and radio astronomer.

Balick grew up in Washington, Philadelphia and finally Wilmette, where he graduated from New Trier High School in 1961.[1] He then studied physics at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he received his bachelor's degree, and in 1971 he received his doctorate from Cornell University under Robert Hjellming. He has been at the University of Washington since 1975, where he is now professor emeritus. For a time he headed the astronomy department.[2]

In 1974, Balick and Robert L. Brown discovered Sagittarius A*.^[1] using the interferometer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), where he first took summer courses in 1968/69. He researches planetary nebulae, the final stages of most stars in the galaxy (including the sun). He tries to explain their (despite all fundamental asymmetry) frequently present symmetries with (magneto-)hydrodynamic modeling of the ejection of matter and their chemical composition (element abundances).

He also uses optical telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope and was on the design team of its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was on the URSI Commission J (radio astronomy).

fellow of the American Astronomical Society.^[2]

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