About Bruce T. Draine
Born 1947. Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist, astronomer, university teacher and physicist.
Bruce Thomas Draine (born November 19, 1947, in Kolkata) is an American astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.
He attended Swarthmore College from 1965 to 1969. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Ghana from 1969 to 1971, where he taught secondary school physics and mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1978. From 1979 to 1982 he was in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. His research involves the study of the interstellar medium, especially interstellar dust, photodissociation regions, and interstellar shock waves. In 2007, he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences for his work in the field of Astrophysics. He was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.
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American astronomer (b.1947)
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Bruce T. Draine was born on 19 November 1947 in Kolkata.
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Bruce T. Draine is an astrophysicist, astronomer, university teacher and physicist.
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