Andrea Dupree

Andrea Dupree is a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.[1] She is a Past-President of the American Astronomical Society, and served as the Associate Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Dupree also served as Head of the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division for a dozen years.[1]

Andrea K. Dupree
Dr. Andrea K. Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the cassegrain focus of the 4-m Mayall telescope of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Kitt Peak, Arizona
Born1939
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWellesley College, 1960, Harvard University, 1968
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
ThesisAnalysis of Emission Lines from the Solar Corona (1968)

Education and career

Dupree attended Wellesley College and graduated with her bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts in 1956. She knew she wanted to go in to the sciences, and her favorite subjects were Geology and Astronomy. In a 2007 interview, Dupree said, "I’m sure I would’ve been a geologist if the coin had ended up heads instead of tails."[2] After graduating from Wellesley, Dupree briefly studied at University of California, Berkeley, before enrolling in graduate school at Radcliffe in 1961. The Radcliffe Graduate School merged with Harvard University in 1963, and Dupree graduated with her PhD in Astrophysics from Harvard in 1968.[2] Her graduate thesis was titled Analysis of Emission Lines from the Solar Corona.[3]

Dupree has worked as an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 1968. In 1980, she became the first woman and youngest person to serve as the Associate Director of the Center for Astrophysics. From 1996-1998, she served as the President of the American Astronomical Society.[4] Dupree is an internationally recognized leader in stellar physics and the bulk of her research is on cool stars like our own Sun.

Dupree recorded an oral history with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in 2007.[5]

She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [6]

References
  1. "Dupree". Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. "Andrea Dupree". American Institute of Physics. 2015-01-23. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  3. Dupree, Andrea Kundsin (1968). "Analysis of Emission Lines from the Solar Corona". Bibcode:1968PhDT.........3D. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "Past Officers and Trustees". Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  5. "Andrea Dupree". www.aip.org. 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  6. "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
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