Marc Davis (UC Berkeley Astronomy)
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Marc Davis (born 8 September 1947) is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Davis received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1973 and has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992).
Davis' work has been in physical cosmology and he is the lead principal investigator on the ambitious DEEP2 galactic redshift survey of 50,000 high redshift galaxies. The scientific goals of the DEEP survey are to study the properties of galaxies and the clustering of galaxies as the universe has evolved.
Davis suffered a stroke in June of 2003.
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