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Chris Impey
Christopher David Impey (born 25 January 1956) is a British astronomer, educator, and author. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona since 1986. Impey has done research on observational cosmology, in particular low surface brightness galaxies, the intergalactic medium, and surveys of active galaxies and quasars. As an educator, he has pioneered the use of instructional technology for teaching science to undergraduate non-science majors. He has written many technical articles and a series of popular science books: ''The Living Cosmos'', ''How It Ends'', ''How It Began'', ''Dreams of Other Worlds'', and ''Humble Before the Void''. He served as Vice-President of the American Astronomical Society, he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is a (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor ).
==Biography==
Impey was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and spent his childhood mostly in New York and London, attending 11 schools. He got a 1st class honours BSc in Physics at Imperial College of Science and Technology, part of the University of London, in 1977. After an internship working on a neutrino calorimeter at CERN under Jack Steinberger, he went to the University of Edinburgh for graduate school in astronomy. He earned a PhD under the supervision of Drs. Peter Brand and Ray Wolstencroft in 1981.
He worked at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii from 1981 to 1983 as a UK Science Research Council/NATO Fellow, then at California Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1986 as a Weingart Fellow. Impey has been on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona since 1986, since 2000 as a University Distinguished Professor. He is Deputy Department Head in charge of academic programs, leading the nation's largest undergraduate astronomy majors program, its 2nd largest astronomy PhD program, and one of the largest programs to teach astronomy to non-science majors.
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