Deidre Hunter

Deidre A. Hunter is an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory. Her primary research area is tiny irregular galaxies — their origins, evolution and star-formation properties. She uses many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and includes spectroscopy in her approach.

Education Hunter's BS is from the University of Arizona (1975) and her PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982. Her thesis was on the star-forming properties of irregular galaxies. It earned an award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Career Hunter was a postdoctoral fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory, after which she spent two years at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington as the Richard B. Roberts fellow . She joined Lowell Observatory science staff in 1986 as well as the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC camera team . Hunter founded Lowell’s Navajo-Jopi 165574 Deidre, asteroid

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