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James R. Houck

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American astrophysicist

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James R. Houck
Physics
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#3719
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#992
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Astrophysics
#278
World Rank
#309
Historical Rank
#102
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Astronomy
#344
World Rank
#687
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#185
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According to Wikipedia, James Richard Houck was the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Houck pioneered infrared observational astronomy, designing detectors and spectrographs that were flown on sounding rockets in the 1960s, on airborne observatories in the 1970s, and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite in 1984 and the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2003. He also led development of Cornell's instrumentation for the Palomar Observatory Hale Telescope.

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James R. Houck's Published Works

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