Knox Long's Home Page

I am an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute where I split my time between research and supporting the development of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched in 2013.

Space Science Telescope Institute
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
 
 
• E-mail: long@stsci.edu
• Phone: 1-410-338-4862
• FAX: 1-410-338-4436

Research Interests:

• Cataclysmic Variables 
• Supernova Remnants.
• X-ray sources in nearby galaxies.

Publications

Duties at STScI 

Currently I am the Mission Scientist for JWST at STScI, where we are planning to operate JWST, an a fashion that is rather similar to Hubble Space Telescope.      I gave a public talk on JWST in May 2007, which you can watch, if you are interested.

Education

• A.B. Physics, Harvard College 1971.
• PhD. Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1976.