Caleb Scharf Explained

Caleb Scharf
Birth Name:Caleb Asa Scharf
Citizenship:British and American
Nationality:English
Awards:Carl Sagan Medal (2022)
Fields:Cosmology and Astrobiology
Workplaces:Columbia University

Caleb Asa Scharf[1] is a British-American astronomer and popular science author. He is currently the senior scientist for astrobiology at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.[2] He formerly served as the director of the multidisciplinary Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, New York.[3]

Also active as a science communicator, Scharf was the 2022 recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal, awarded by the American Astronomical Society for excellence in public communication of planetary science.[4]

Early life and education

He received a B.Sc. in Physics from Durham University and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge.

Research

Scharf conducted postdoctoral work in X-ray astronomy and observational cosmology at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland.[5]

He has an extensive research record in observational cosmology but more recently works on topics in exoplanetary science and astrobiology.[6]

Writing

He is the author of the upper-level undergraduate textbook Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology,[7] published in 2008 by University Science Books, CA. This book won the 2011 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award and medal from the American Astronomical Society. He has many published professional papers in peer-reviewed journals, with 109 papers listed in the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS); three have been cited over 100 times each: the highest counts are 264[8] 139,[9] 116,[10] all in The Astrophysical Journal.

His blog Life, Unbounded appears at Scientific American and covers topics in astronomy, exoplanetary science, and astrobiology.

Scharf is the author of a number of popular science books. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes (US subtitle: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Universe) was published in December 2012.[11] It was listed as one of the New Scientist top 10 books to read in 2012 and as one of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors' Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012. His next book, The Copernicus Complex, was published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in 2017 The Zoomable Universe, with illustrations by Ron Miller, was published by Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Bibliography

Textbooks

Popular Science

Riverhead Books.

Essays and reporting

External links

Notes and References

  1. BSc . University of Durham Congregation (28 June 12:30pm) . 1989 . 6 . Durham University . Durham.
  2. Web site: Caleb Scharf: Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at the NASA Ames Research Center. Astrobiology at NASA .
  3. Web site: Caleb Scharf: Research Scientist. Columbia University, Department of Astronomy. 2016-03-26. 2016-04-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20160405005505/http://www.astro.columbia.edu/profile?uid=caleb. dead.
  4. Web site: Caleb Scharf Wins Carl Sagan Medal for Public Science Communication . Astronomy & Astrophysics . Columbia University . 25 April 2023 . 8 September 2022.
  5. Web site: NASA GISS To Help Lead Search for Habitable Exoplanets. NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies. NASA.
  6. Web site: Caleb Scharf: Director of Astrobiology Columbia University. Caleb Scharf .
  7. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-09-22 . 2010-04-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100414125233/http://www.astro.columbia.edu/EXPA/ . dead .
  8. Mushotzky, R. F.; Scharf, C. A., The Luminosity-Temperature Relation at z=0.4 for Clusters of Galaxies
  9. Horner, Donald J.; Mushotzky, Richard F.; Scharf, Caleb A. Observational Tests of the Mass-Temperature Relation for Galaxy Clusters
  10. Scharf, C. A.; Jones, L. R.; Ebeling, H.; Perlman, E.; Malkan, M.; Wegner, G. The Wide-Angle ROSAT Pointed X-Ray Survey of Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters. I. Method and First Results
  11. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes – reviewed by Tim Radford “Hearts of Darkness” in The Guardian, review section page 7 on 15 December 2012
  12. Library of Congress has 2009 as copyright date.
  13. Where do minds belong? Intelligence could have been moving back and forth between biological beings and machine receptacles for aeons. Aeon.

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