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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Franz Friedrich Ernst Brunnow |
1854 - 1859 |
Professor of Astronomy Director of the University of Michigan Observatory |
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James Craig Watson |
1858 - 1879 |
Professor of Astronomy Director of the Observatory Instructor in Mathematics 1858-1859 |
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Mark Walrod Harrington |
1868 - 1892 |
Professor of Astronomy Director of the Observatory |
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John Martin Schaeberle |
1885 - 1888 |
Acting Assistant Professor of Astronomy Instructor in Mathematics |
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William Wallace Campbell |
1888 - 1891 | Instructor in Astronomy |
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Asaph Hall |
1892 - 1905 |
Professor of Astronomy Director of the University of Michigan Observatory |
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Elmer Louis Allor |
1892 | Instructor in Astronomy |
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William J. Hussey |
1905 - 1926 |
Professor of Astronomy Director of the University of Michigan Observatory |
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Ralph Hamilton Curtiss |
1907 - 1929 |
Professor of Astronomy Chair of Department of Astronomy Director of the Observatories |
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Walter Mann Mitchell |
1910 - 1913 | Assistant Professor of Astronomy |
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Sebastian Albrecht |
1912 - 1913 | Acting Junior Professor of Astronomy |
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W. Carl Rufus |
1917 - 1946 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Richard A. Rossiter |
1926 - 1952 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Dean B. McLaughlin |
1927 - 1965 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Allan Douglas Maxwell |
1928 - 1946 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Hazel M. Losh |
1928 - 1969 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Oliver Brown |
1931 - 1940 | Instruction in Anatomy |
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Robley C. Williams |
1935 - 1950 |
Professor of Physics and Bio Physics Professor of Astronomy |
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Orren C. Mohler |
1940 - 1979 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Freeman D. Miller |
1946 - 1977 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Helen Walter Dodson Prince |
1947 - 1976 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Lawrence H. Aller |
1948 - 1962 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Austin Keith Pierce |
1948 - 1958 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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William Liller |
1953 - 1960 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Guenther H. E. Elste |
1954 - 1991 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Fred T. Haddock |
1956 - 1988 | Professor of Astronomy, Electrical Engineering |
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Dennis Walsh |
1959 - 1967 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Herman Zanstra |
1959 | Visiting Professor of Astronomy |
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William E Howard |
1959 - 1964 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Richard G. Teske |
1960 - 1993 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Charles R. Cowley |
1967 - 2007 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Jack G. Hills |
1969 | Unknown |
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Hugh D. Aller |
1969 - 2018 | Professor of Astronomy |
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William A. Hiltner |
1970 - 1985 |
Professor of Astronomy Chair of Department of Astronomy |
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Nancy Houk |
1970 - 2001 | Research Scientist |
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Gordon M. MacAlpine |
1972 - 2000 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Robert Kirshner |
1976 - 1985 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Rudi P. Lindner |
1977 - 2017 | Professor of Astronomy and History |
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Philip A. Hughes |
1983 - 2006 | Research Scientist Astronomy |
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Todd A. Boroson |
1984 - 1987 | Assistant Professor of Astronomy |
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Gregory D. Bothun |
1986 - 1992 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Holland C. Ford |
1987 - 1988 | Professor of Astronomy |
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Patrick O. Seitzer |
1991 - 2016 | Research Professor of Astronomy |
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Gary M. Bernstein |
1994 - 2003 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Rebecca Bernstein |
2001 - 2007 | Associate Professor of Astronomy |
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Rachel Sue Somerville |
2001 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Astronomy |
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Ray Jayawardhana |
2002 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Astronomy |
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Mary E. Putman |
2004 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Astronomy |
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Lee W. Hartmann |
2005 - 2022 | Professor of Astronomy |