Sallie Baliunas

Sallie L. Baliunas
Born (1953-02-23) February 23, 1953 (age 71)
New York City, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materVillanova University,
Harvard University
AwardsBok Prize (1988),
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy (1988)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsMount Wilson Observatory,
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
ThesisOptical and ultraviolet studies of stellar chromospheres of Lambda Andromedae and other late-type stars (1980)
Doctoral advisorAndrea Dupree

Sallie Louise Baliunas (born February 23, 1953)[1] is a retired astrophysicist. She formerly worked at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and was the Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1991 to 2003.

  1. ^ Lightman, Alan (1994). Time for the stars: astronomy in the 1990s. Grand Central Publishing. p. 39. ISBN 978-0446670241. Retrieved 2012-09-03.