Ray Weymann

Ray Weymann is a retired astronomer and astrophysicist, associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. His PhD is from Princeton University. He is a founder of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, a member National Academy of Sciences (1984),[1] and past president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1973-1975.

Ray Weymann
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology, Princeton University
Scientific career
ThesisHeating of stellar chromospheres by shock waves and coronal evaporation as a possible mechanism for mass loss in red giants. (1960)

He has made notable contributions to astronomy in the areas of the evolution of high redshift galaxies, and mass ejection from active galaxies.

References

  1. NAS Directory of members


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