Nick Scoville

Nick Scoville is the Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy at Caltech[5] and departmental chair.

Nicholas Zabriskie Scoville
Known forCosmic Evolution Survey[1]
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1981)[2]
Jansky Lecturership (2015)[3]
Bruce Medal (2017)[4]
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular clouds
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Websitewww.astro.caltech.edu/people/faculty/Nick_Scoville.html

Research

His research interests include interstellar molecular clouds, the star formation which occurs in these clouds, interacting ultraluminous-infrared galaxies and active galactic nuclei. His main hobby outside of astronomy is steel sculptural welding. He works on the Hubble Heritage Project, and the Cosmic Evolution Survey[1] multi-wavelength deep-field study of galaxies in the early universe.

While at the University of Massachusetts Dr. Scoville was the associate director of Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory. At Caltech he was the director of Owens Valley Radio Observatory from 1986 through 1996[4]

Dr. Scoville developed the MIR software package for calibrating data from the OVRO Millimeter Array, which was later used by other astronomical radio interferometers.[6]

The main belt asteroid 25746 Nickscoville is named after Dr. Scoville.[7]

References
  1. Scoville, N.; Aussel, H.; Brusa, M.; Capak, P.; Carollo, C. M.; Elvis, M.; Giavalisco, M.; Guzzo, L.; Hasinger, G.; Impey, C.; Kneib, J. ‐P.; Lefevre, O.; Lilly, S. J.; Mobasher, B.; Renzini, A.; Rich, R. M.; Sanders, D. B.; Schinnerer, E.; Schminovich, D.; Shopbell, P.; Taniguchi, Y.; Tyson, N. D. (2007). "The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): Overview". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 172: 1. arXiv:astro-ph/0612305. Bibcode:2007ApJS..172....1S. doi:10.1086/516585.
  2. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Nicholas Z. Scoville
  3. 2015 Jansky Lecture: Dr. Nick Scoville — Science Website
  4. "The Bruce Medalists". The Bruce Medalists. Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  5. "Nick Z. Scoville". Caltech. Retrieved 2008-12-23.
  6. Keto, Eric. "Eric Keto's MIR Website". Senter for Astrophysics. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  7. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 November 2020.


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