Nancy Boggess Explained

Nancy Boggess
Alma Mater:University of Michigan
Thesis Title:The structure of NGC 6822
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2832151
Thesis Year:1967

Nancy Elizabeth Weber Boggess (1925 – 2019) was an astrophysicist known for her work in developing telescopes that were used in space by NASA.

Early life and education

Boggess was born in 1925. She attended Wheaton College in Massachusetts where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and music. She then earned her master's degree in mathematics from Wellesley College. Boggess completed her education at the University of Michigan with a PhD in astronomy.[1]

Career

Boggess went on to join NASA in 1968[2] [3] after Nancy Roman heard Boggess speak at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society and offered Boggess a job.[4] Boggess oversaw grant programs at NASA, including serving as a NASA project scientist[5] for the development and launch of Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), which was able to map the entire night sky in the infrared spectrum.[6] From 1983 until 1984 Boggess worked on the coordinating the development of the Spitzer Space Telescope.[7] [8] [9] Boggess was the project scientist[10] for the team that developed the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)[11] [12] which earned a Nobel Prize for John C. Mather and George Smoot in Physics in 2006.[13] Under Boggess' guidance, COBE was a combination of multiple instruments that made precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation that was left over from the Big Bang.[14] [15]

When Boggess retired, she spent time documenting the migration of birds. Boggess died in 2019.[16]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 1997 Wheaton College awarded Boggess with an honorary degree.[17] In 2006 Boggess was among the team members who received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for their work on COBE.[18] [19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Masegosa . Josefa . Nancy Boggess, una astrónoma en la NASA Información y Actualidad Astronómica . 2024-01-01 . revista.iaa.es.
  2. Web site: Inside Gallery 4 . 2024-01-01 . www.hq.nasa.gov.
  3. Web site: 2008-05-13 . History of Women in Astronomy: Nancy Boggess . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080513151430/http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/cswa/history/boggess.html . May 13, 2008 . 2024-01-01 .
  4. Roman . Nancy Grace . 2019-08-18 . Nancy Grace Roman and the Dawn of Space Astronomy . Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics . en . 57 . 1 . 1–34 . 10.1146/annurev-astro-091918-104446 . 2019ARA&A..57....1R . 0066-4146.
  5. News: 1983-11-10 . Space discoveries . 47 . The Albuquerque Tribune . 2024-01-01.
  6. Web site: Boggess and Low with jet . 2024-01-01 . Niels Bohr Library & Archives . en.
  7. Book: Werner . Michael . More Things in the Heavens: How Infrared Astronomy Is Expanding Our View of the Universe . Eisenhardt . Peter . 2019-06-25 . Princeton University Press . 978-0-691-19196-6 . 213 . en.
  8. Book: Rieke, George Henry . The Last of the Great Observatories: Spitzer and the Era of Faster, Better, Cheaper at NASA . 2006-05-11 . University of Arizona Press . 978-0-8165-2558-4 . 7 . en.
  9. Werner . Michael . astro-ph/0503624 . A Short and Personal History of the Spitzer Space Telescope . 2005.
  10. News: 1989-11-19 . Rocket launch ends era, begins search for origin of universe . 22 . The Baltimore Sun . 2024-01-01.
  11. Web site: Boggess Performs Tests with COBE . 2024-01-01 . Niels Bohr Library & Archives . en.
  12. Book: Boslough . John . The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe . Mather . John . 2008-10-20 . Basic Books . 978-0-7867-2647-9 . 118–122 . en.
  13. Book: Brink, Lars . Nobel Lectures In Physics (2006-2010) . 2014-06-02 . World Scientific . 978-981-4612-70-8 . en.
  14. Book: Kragh . Helge . The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology . Longair . Malcolm . 2019-03-06 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-254997-6 . en.
  15. News: Sehlstedt . Albert . 1993-03-28 . Looking in the sky for evidence of the Big Bang . 36 . The Baltimore Sun . 2024-01-01.
  16. Web site: International Astronomical Union IAU . 2024-01-01 . www.iau.org.
  17. Web site: Filippo . Thomas San . 2011-03-07 . Nancy Weber Boggess, Honorary Degree Recipient . 2024-01-01 . College History . en-US.
  18. Web site: Wanjek . Christopher . October 4, 2006 . NASA - Spunky Satellite Yields Nobel Prize for NASA Scientist . 2024-01-01 . www3.nasa.gov . en.
  19. Web site: John Mather & the COBE Team Gruber Foundation . 2024-01-01 . gruber.yale.edu.

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