Claude R. Canizares

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Claude R. Canizares is the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT. He is also an associate provost at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center.

[edit] Academic career

Prof. Canizares earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Harvard University. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and joined the physics faculty in 1974. In 1984, he was made a full professor.

From 1990 to 2002, Prof. Canizares was the director of MIT's Center for Space Research (now known as the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research). In 2002, he was appointed associate provost.

Canizares is the principal investigator for the Chandra X-ray Observatory's High Resolution Transmission Grating Spectrometer instrument.

[edit] Selected publications

Prof. Canizares is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers.

"Simulating the X-ray Forest"
T Fang, GL Bryan, and C.R. Canizares
ApJ 564, 604 (2002)
"The High Resolution X-ray Spectrum of SS 433 using the Chandra HETGS"
H.L Marshall, C.R. Canizares and N.S. Schulz
ApJ 564, 941-952 (2002)
"A High Resolution X-ray Image of the Jet in M 87"
H.L. Marshall, B.P. Miller, D.S. Davis, E.S. Perlman, M. Wise, C.R. Canizares, D.E. Harris, J.A. Biretta
Ap.J. 564 683-687 (2002)
"Chandra Observation of the Quasar H 1821+643 and its Surrounding Cluster"
T. Fang, D S. Davis, J.C. Lee, H.L. Marshall, G.L. Bryan, C.R.Canizares
ApJ 565 86-95 (2002)
"The First High Resolution X-ray Spectrum of Cyg X-1: Soft X-Ray Ionization and Absorption"
N.S. Schulz, W. Cui, C.R. Canizares, H.L. Marshall, J.C. Lee, J.M. Miller, W.H.G. Lewin
Ap.J. 565 1141-1149 (2002)
"A Chandra High-Energy Transition Grating Spectrometer Observation of the Quasar H1821+643 and Its Surrounding Cluster"
T. Fang, D.S. Davis, J.C. Lee, H.L. Marshall, C.R. Canizares
Ap.J 565 86-95 (2002)
"Resolving the Composite Fe K-alpha Emission Line in the Galactic Black Hole Cygnus X-1 with Chandra"
J.M. Miller, A.C. Fabian, R. Wijnands, R.A. Remillard, P. Wojdowski, N.S. Schulz, T. Di Matteo, H.L. Marshall, C.R. Canizares, D. Pooley, W.H.G. Lewin
Ap.J. submitted, February 2002.